linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/mempolicy: Fix memory leaks in mempolicy_sysfs

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Message-ID: <20250310082313.584-1-rakie.kim@sk.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:23:03 +0900
From: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@...com>
To: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
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	honggyu.kim@...com,
	yunjeong.mun@...com,
	Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/mempolicy: Fix memory leaks in mempolicy_sysfs_init()

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 10:23:57 -0500 Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net> wrote:

Hi Gregory

 On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 03:35:33PM +0900, Rakie Kim wrote:
> > Improper cleanup of sysfs attributes caused kobject and memory leaks when
> > initialization failed or nodes were removed.
> >
> 
> Is this fixing something in your patch set or fixing something in the
> current upstream code?  If in the current patch set, roll this into the
> patch that causes it.
> 
> If this is fixing something upstream, I recommend submitting this
> separately to stable and rebasing on top of it.

Thank you for your response regarding this patch.
This patch isn't a modification of my hotplug-related patch but rather
a fix addressing issues in the existing implementation of the commit
listed below.
I will proceed to update it as a separate patch based on the mentioned
commit.

mm/mempolicy: implement the sysfs-based weighted_interleave interface
(dce41f5ae2539d1c20ae8de4e039630aec3c3f3c)

Rakie

>
> 
> ~Gregory