From: Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:37:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090504163731.3675ea87@rwuerthntp> (raw)
[PATCH] alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak
From: Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If alloc_vmap_area() fails the allocated struct vmap_area has to be
freed.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ overflow:
printk(KERN_WARNING
"vmap allocation for size %lu failed: "
"use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.\n", size);
+ kfree(va);
return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
}
--
Ralph Wuerthner
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next reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 14:37 Ralph Wuerthner [this message]
2009-05-04 16:15 ` [PATCH] alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak Christoph Lameter
2009-05-05 1:00 ` Minchan Kim
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