From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:47:22 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mm/hugetlb.c: fix error-path memory leak in nr_hugepages_store_common()
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32d6feadf4e17ea9b98071be9bbf402a74a4f818;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

mm/hugetlb.c: fix error-path memory leak in nr_hugepages_store_common()

The NODEMASK_ALLOC macro may dynamically allocate memory for its second
argument ('nodes_allowed' in this context).

In nr_hugepages_store_common() we may abort early if strict_strtoul()
fails, but in that case we do not free the memory already allocated to
'nodes_allowed', causing a memory leak.

This patch closes the leak by freeing the memory in the error path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use NODEMASK_FREE, per Minchan Kim]
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 7bf223d6677b..8e31cda6fc22 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1374,8 +1374,10 @@ static ssize_t nr_hugepages_store_common(bool obey_mempolicy,
 	NODEMASK_ALLOC(nodemask_t, nodes_allowed, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY);
 
 	err = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &count);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		NODEMASK_FREE(nodes_allowed);
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	h = kobj_to_hstate(kobj, &nid);
 	if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) {