linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: fix vma->anon_name memory leak for anonymous shmem VMAs

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:07:07 +0100
From:   Holger Hoffstätte <holger@...lied-asynchrony.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: fix vma->anon_name memory leak for anonymous
 shmem VMAs

On 2023-01-05 10:03, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 05.01.23 03:39, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 5:38 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed,  4 Jan 2023 16:02:40 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> free_anon_vma_name() is missing a check for anonymous shmem VMA which
>>>> leads to a memory leak due to refcount not being dropped.  Fix this by
>>>> calling anon_vma_name_put() unconditionally. It will free vma->anon_name
>>>> whenever it's non-NULL.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: d09e8ca6cb93 ("mm: anonymous shared memory naming")
>>>
>>> A cc:stable is appropriate here, yes?
>>
>> Hmm. The patch we are fixing here was merged in 6.2-rc1. Should I CC
>> stable to fix the previous -rc branch?
>>
> 
> No need for stable if it's not in a release kernel yet.

Commit d09e8ca6cb93 is in 6.1. The fix applies cleanly.

cheers
Holger