Re: [PATCH] leak less memory in failure paths of alloc_rt_sched_group()

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 00:09 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> In kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c::alloc_rt_sched_group() we currently do 
> some paired memory allocations, and if one fails we bail out without 
> freeing the previous one.
> 
> If we fail inside the loop we should proably roll the whole thing back. 
> This patch does not do that, it simply frees the first member of the 
> paired alloc if the second fails. This is not perfect, but it's a simple 
> change that will, at least, result in us leaking a little less than we 
> currently do when an allocation fails.
> 
> So, not perfect, but better than what we currently have.
> Please consider applying.

Doesn't the following handle that:

sched_create_group()
{
...
	if (!alloc_rt_sched_group())
		goto err;
...

err:
	free_sched_group();
}


free_sched_group()
{
...
	free_rt_sched_group();
...
}

free_rt_sched_group()
{
 	free all relevant stuff
}

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