From 8c7577637ca31385e92769a77e2ab5b428e8b99c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sha Zhengju Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:01:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak 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 Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 31ab9c3f0178..b659260c56ad 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4507,6 +4507,12 @@ 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 */ -- 2.20.1