From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in net/wireless/scan.c
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:12:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246986768.4755.43.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246986269.9451.105.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
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On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 18:04 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
> index e95b638..f8e71b3 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/scan.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
> @@ -366,7 +366,6 @@ cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev,
> found = rb_find_bss(dev, res);
>
> if (found) {
> - kref_get(&found->ref);
> found->pub.beacon_interval = res->pub.beacon_interval;
> found->pub.tsf = res->pub.tsf;
> found->pub.signal = res->pub.signal;
>
> I'll try this later today to see if it fixes the leak. If that's not
> correct, I'll post more information about the content of the reported
> object (in general, it shouldn't be on any valid list or rb tree since
> kmemleak can't find it).
I have already sent that exact patch.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-07 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-07 17:04 Possible memory leak in net/wireless/scan.c Catalin Marinas
2009-07-07 17:12 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-07-07 21:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-07 21:47 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-08 3:06 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-08 8:46 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-08 10:24 ` Johannes Berg
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