linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 -next 1/9] DMA, CMA: fix possible memory leak

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:33:50 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 -next 1/9] DMA, CMA: fix possible memory leak

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:27:19PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi, Joonsoo
> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:40:43PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > We should free memory for bitmap when we find zone mis-match,
> > otherwise this memory will leak.
> > 
> > Additionally, I copy code comment from PPC KVM's CMA code to inform
> > why we need to check zone mis-match.
> > 
> > * Note
> > Minchan suggested to add a tag for the stable, but, I don't do it,
> > because I found this possibility during code-review and, IMO,
> > this patch isn't suitable for stable tree.
> 
> Nice idea to put the comment in here. Thanks Joonsoo.
> 
> It seems you obey "It must fix a real bug that bothers people"
> on Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt but it's a really obvious
> bug and hard to get a report from people because limited user and
> hard to detect small such small memory leak.
> 
> In my experince, Andrew perfered stable marking for such a obvious
> problem but simple fix like this but not sure so let's pass the decision
> to him and will learn a lesson from him and will follow the decision
> from now on.

Yes, I intended to pass the decision to others. :)

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Thanks.
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