From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Teigland Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:40:56 -0400 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH] fs, dlm: Don't leak, don't do pointless NULL checks and use kzalloc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110629214056.GA11350@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:09:27PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > In fs/dlm/lock.c in the dlm_scan_waiters() function there are 3 small > issues: > > 1) first time through the loop we allocate memory for 'warned', if we > then (in the loop) don't take the "if (!warned)" path and loop again, > the second time through the loop we'll allocate memory again and store > it to 'warned' without freeing the previous allocation - this leaks > memory. I don't think so; num_nodes won't be set to zero. > 2) There's no need to test the return value of the allocation and do a > memset if is succeedes. Just use kzalloc() to obtain zeroed memory. fine > 3) Since kfree() handles NULL pointers gracefully, the test of > 'warned' against NULL before the kfree() after the loop is completely > pointless. Remove it. fine ack if you want to push those two out yourself. Dave