From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dedekind@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:09:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178784573.3734.5.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705100026.12639.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:26 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> In drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c::paranoid_check_si() there's a memory leak.
> If the call
> err = ubi_io_is_bad(ubi, pnum);
> returns <0, then we'll return with out freeing (and thus leak) buf.
> This patch eliminates the memory leak by freeing buf before returning.
>
> Problem spotted by the Coverity checker.
It was already reported and fixed in our git tree. But thanks anyway.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 22:26 [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit Jesper Juhl
2007-05-10 8:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2007-06-12 22:21 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-17 11:26 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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