From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Patch](Resend) mm/sparse.c: Improve the error handling for sparse_add_one_section()
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:53:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196189625.5764.36.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071127022609.GA4164@hacking>
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 10:26 +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
>
> @@ -414,7 +418,7 @@ int sparse_add_one_section(struct zone *
> out:
> pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
> if (ret <= 0)
> - __kfree_section_memmap(memmap, nr_pages);
> + kfree(usemap);
> return ret;
> }
> #endif
Why did you get rid of the memmap free here? A bad return from
sparse_init_one_section() indicates that we didn't use the memmap, so it
will leak otherwise.
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-27 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-15 13:54 [Patch] mm/sparse.c: Check the return value of sparse_index_alloc() WANG Cong
2007-11-16 21:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-19 21:17 ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-20 4:57 ` WANG Cong
2007-11-23 5:51 ` [Patch] mm/sparse.c: Improve the error handling for sparse_add_one_section() WANG Cong
2007-11-26 10:19 ` Yasunori Goto
2007-11-27 2:26 ` [Patch](Resend) " WANG Cong
2007-11-27 11:55 ` Yasunori Goto
2007-11-27 18:53 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-11-28 12:44 ` WANG Cong
2007-11-29 2:42 ` Yasunori Goto
2007-11-29 17:47 ` Dave Hansen
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