linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.13 16/27] mm/swapfile.c: fix swapon frontswap

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Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:59:56 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.13 16/27] mm/swapfile.c: fix swapon frontswap_map memory leak on error

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

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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

commit b6b1fd2a6bedd533aeed83924d7be0e944fded9f upstream.

Free frontswap_map if an error is encountered before enable_swap_info().

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/swapfile.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3053,6 +3053,7 @@ bad_swap:
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 	vfree(swap_map);
 	kvfree(cluster_info);
+	kvfree(frontswap_map);
 	if (swap_file) {
 		if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
 			inode_unlock(inode);