On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Tommi Rantala wrote: > 2012/12/5 Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:24:30PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > >> From: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de> > >> > >> 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 <mgor...@suse.de> > > > > Tommi, just in case, can you confirm this fixes the problem for you please? > > Confirmed! No more complaints from kmemleak.
Great, thanks. I'll update the tags and send straight to Linus now. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/