linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mempolicy: fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock mpol

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:11:43 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mempolicy:  fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock
	mpol

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:47:17PM -0400, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> Against 2.6.35-rc1+
> 
> My patch to "Factor out duplicate put/frees in mpol_shared_policy_init()
> to a common return path"; and Dan Carpenter's fix thereto both left a
> dangling reference to the incoming tmpfs superblock mempolicy structure.
> A similar leak was introduced earlier when the nodemask was moved offstack
> to the scratch area despite the note in the comment block regarding the
> incoming ref.
> 

Yup.  You're right.

Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

regards,
dan carpenter
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