From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: [Patch] statistics: fix cpu hot unplug related memory leak From: Martin Peschke Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:54:59 +0200 Message-Id: <1176220499.5572.19.camel@dix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org List-ID: In case of CPU hotunplug statistics might have leaked some memory (lists of struct statistic_entry_sparse, about 32 byte each, freed by statistic_sparse_reset()). Patch is against 2.6.21-rc6-mm1. Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke --- statistic.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux/lib/statistic.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/lib/statistic.c +++ linux/lib/statistic.c @@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ static int _statistic_hotcpu(struct stat src = percpu_ptr(stat->data, cpu); disc->merge(stat, dst, src); local_irq_restore(flags); + disc->reset(stat, src); percpu_depopulate(stat->data, cpu); break; }