* [Patch] statistics: fix cpu hot unplug related memory leak
@ 2007-04-10 15:54 Martin Peschke
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From: Martin Peschke @ 2007-04-10 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-s390
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 <mp3@de.ibm.com>
---
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;
}
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