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Message-ID: <YfkjSj59otaREsfi@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 13:10:50 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drivers/base/memory: add memory block to memory group
after registration succeeded
On Mon 31-01-22 17:01:23, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:45:40 +0100 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > If register_memory() fails, we freed the memory block but already added
> > the memory block to the group list, not good. Let's defer adding the
> > block to the memory group to after registering the memory block device.
> >
> > We do handle it properly during unregister_memory(), but that's not
> > called when the registration fails.
> >
>
> I guess this has never been known to happen. So I queued the fix for
> 5.18-rc1, cc:stable.
I do not think this is worth stable backporting. Chances of a failure
are pretty small and I am not aware of any existing report.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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