linux-kernel - [ 077/117] memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak

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Date:	Mon, 28 May 2012 04:13:19 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: [ 077/117] memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>

commit 8c7577637ca31385e92769a77e2ab5b428e8b99c upstream.

When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare
array anymore.  So free it to avoid memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 31ab9c3..b659260 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4507,6 +4507,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 swap_buffers:
 	/* Swap primary and spare array */
 	thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary;
+	/* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
+	if (!new) {
+		kfree(thresholds->spare);
+		thresholds->spare = NULL;
+	}
+
 	rcu_assign_pointer(thresholds->primary, new);
 
 	/* To be sure that nobody uses thresholds */


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