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memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak
authorSha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com>
Thu, 10 May 2012 20:01:45 +0000 (13:01 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 21 May 2012 16:40:04 +0000 (09:40 -0700)
commit 8c7577637ca31385e92769a77e2ab5b428e8b99c upstream.

When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare
array anymore.  So free it to avoid memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c

index 283068f..ffb99b4 100644 (file)
@@ -4605,6 +4605,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 swap_buffers:
        /* Swap primary and spare array */
        thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary;
+       /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
+       if (!new) {
+               kfree(thresholds->spare);
+               thresholds->spare = NULL;
+       }
+
        rcu_assign_pointer(thresholds->primary, new);
 
        /* To be sure that nobody uses thresholds */