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authorLee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>2010-06-29 15:05:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-06-29 15:29:31 -0700
commit5c0c165490e763eddcbb0b6c8c41ab5cc11ddea0 (patch)
tree729ad93071eaf065e7dfb7c7d94b0207b2eced8e /drivers/char
parent56480287f9776adc5b1a7a335ef62a9b9879ad7f (diff)
mempolicy: fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock mpol
My patch to "Factor out duplicate put/frees in mpol_shared_policy_init() to a common return path"; and Dan Carpenter's fix thereto both left a dangling reference to the incoming tmpfs superblock mempolicy structure. A similar leak was introduced earlier when the nodemask was moved offstack to the scratch area despite the note in the comment block regarding the incoming ref. Move the remaining 'put of the incoming "mpol" to the common exit path to drop the reference. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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