2012/12/5 Mel Gorman <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:24:30PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: >> From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> >> >> Commit 00442ad04a5e ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount >> imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the >> refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went >> on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired. >> This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page(). > > Thanks Hugh for turning gibber into a patch! > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> > > Tommi, just in case, can you confirm this fixes the problem for you please?
Confirmed! No more complaints from kmemleak. Thanks, Tommi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
