Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 15:28:22 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: cl@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        aarcange@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, hughd@google.com,
        rientjes@google.com, adobriyan@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:46:30AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> When called for anonymous (non-shared) mappings,
> hugetlb_reserve_pages() does a resv_map_alloc().  It depends on
> code in hugetlbfs's vm_ops->close() to release that allocation.
> 
> However, in the mmap() failure path, we do a plain unmap_region()
> without the remove_vma() which actually calls vm_ops->close().
> 
> This is a decent fix.  This leak could get reintroduced if
> new code (say, after hugetlb_reserve_pages() in
> hugetlbfs_file_mmap()) decides to return an error.  But, I think
> it would have to unroll the reservation anyway.
> 
> This hasn't been extensively tested.  Pretty much compile and
> boot tested along with Christoph's test case.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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