From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject_set_name: free old_name in case of ENOMEM
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:03:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090909170345.GA15866@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909091838080.3303@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:53:21PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
>
> If the memory allocation for the kobject's name fails we should free
> the old_name since it is no longer accessible via kobj->name.
Hasn't this come up a bunch in the past, and we do not want to do this?
You might want to search the lkml archives for details...
thanks,
greg k-h
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2009-09-09 16:53 [PATCH] kobject_set_name: free old_name in case of ENOMEM Sebastian Ott
2009-09-09 17:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
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