From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: arighi@develer.com, stefani@seibold.net
Subject: + kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:54:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008181854.o7IIsF7Y006098@imap1.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
The patch titled
kfifo: fix a memory leak in dma example
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example.patch
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Subject: kfifo: fix a memory leak in dma example
From: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
We use a dynamically allocated kfifo in the dma example, so we need to
free it when unloading the module.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
samples/kfifo/dma-example.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN samples/kfifo/dma-example.c~kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example samples/kfifo/dma-example.c
--- a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c~kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example
+++ a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c
@@ -105,9 +105,7 @@ static int __init example_init(void)
static void __exit example_exit(void)
{
-#ifdef DYNAMIC
- kfifo_free(&test);
-#endif
+ kfifo_free(&fifo);
}
module_init(example_init);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from arighi@develer.com are
kfifo-implement-missing-__kfifo_skip_r.patch
kfifo-add-kfifo_skip-testcase.patch
kfifo-add-explicit-error-checking-in-byte-stream-example.patch
kfifo-fix-kernel-bug-in-dma-example.patch
kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example.patch
kfifo-add-explicit-error-checking-in-all-the-examples.patch
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