mm: fix memory leak in copy_huge_pmd()
authorMatthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 00:57:57 +0000 (16:57 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:28:43 +0000 (08:28 -0800)
commit12c9d70bd5056b3ae84746fca973c286f48384cc
treef6b95cb55c397b738b8509c03d895fa8e2bd6f21
parentc6400ba7e13a41539342f1b6e1f9e78419cb0148
mm: fix memory leak in copy_huge_pmd()

We allocate a pgtable but do not attach it to anything if the PMD is in
a DAX VMA, causing it to leak.

We certainly try to not free pgtables associated with the huge zero page
if the zero page is in a DAX VMA, so I think this is the right solution.
This needs to be properly audited.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/huge_memory.c