From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory leak in case of Kernel module
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:16:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100226121647.GD8417@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bde694e1002260244u25cfa332l82c488702e4b9900@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:14:22PM +0530, naveen yadav wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need small clarification, If I have a kernel module and in init I
> create some memory using vmalloc. and i do not free it. I exit from
> the module.
>
> what happen to this allocated memory. Will kernel handle it and do free.
>
No. You need to free your memory explicitly.
regards,
dan carpenter
>
> Regards
> Naveen
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2010-02-26 10:44 memory leak in case of Kernel module naveen yadav
2010-02-26 12:16 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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