linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] percpu: stop leaking bitmap metadata blocks

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Date:   Sun, 7 Oct 2018 15:09:11 -0700
From:   Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: stop leaking bitmap metadata blocks

Hi Mike,

On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 11:31:51AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> The commit ca460b3c9627 ("percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks")
> introduced bitmap metadata blocks. These metadata blocks are allocated
> whenever a new chunk is created, but they are never freed. Fix it.
> 
> Fixes: ca460b3c9627 ("percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  mm/percpu.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
> index d21cb13..25104cd 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -1212,6 +1212,7 @@ static void pcpu_free_chunk(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk)
>  {
>  	if (!chunk)
>  		return;
> +	pcpu_mem_free(chunk->md_blocks);
>  	pcpu_mem_free(chunk->bound_map);
>  	pcpu_mem_free(chunk->alloc_map);
>  	pcpu_mem_free(chunk);

Ah a bit of a boneheaded miss on my part.. Thanks for catching this!
I've applied it to for-4.19-fixes.

Thanks,
Dennis