The patch titled Subject: mm/shmem: fix freeing new_attr in shmem_initxattrs() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs.patch

This patch was dropped because an alternative patch was merged

------------------------------------------------------ From: Chengguang Xu cgxu519@mykernel.net Subject: mm/shmem: fix freeing new_attr in shmem_initxattrs()

new_attr is allocated with kvmalloc() so should be freed with kvfree().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200703065636.20897-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu cgxu519@mykernel.net Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -3178,7 +3178,7 @@ static int shmem_initxattrs(struct inode new_xattr->name = kmalloc(XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN + len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_xattr->name) { - kfree(new_xattr); + kvfree(new_xattr); return -ENOMEM; }

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from cgxu519@mykernel.net are

vfs-xattr-mm-shmem-kernfs-release-simple-xattr-entry-in-a-right-way.patch