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authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>2011-01-13 15:47:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:48 -0800
commit32d6feadf4e17ea9b98071be9bbf402a74a4f818 (patch)
tree62427ca91992c87399211fec6294533fac0e7464 /mm
parent29c1f677d424e8c5683a837fc4f03fc9f19201d7 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 7bf223d6677..8e31cda6fc2 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) {