From: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Free memory when create_device is failed
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:53:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d760cf2d1001110023r17a2ed1as6874f02cfb066d8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100111161553.3acebae9.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop>
Hi Minchan,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I don't know where I send this patch.
> Do I send this patch to akpm or only you and LKML?
>
I think current TO, CC list is okay for this driver.
>
> If create_device is failed, it can't free gendisk and request_queue
> of preceding devices. It cause memory leak.
>
> This patch fixes it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> CC: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
FWIW,
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Thanks for the fix.
Nitin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-11 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-11 7:15 [PATCH] Free memory when create_device is failed Minchan Kim
2010-01-11 8:23 ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
2010-01-11 8:31 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-11 15:20 ` Greg KH
2010-01-15 1:36 ` patch staging-ramzswap-free-memory-when-create_device-is-failed.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
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