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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Helight.Xu" <helight.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Memory leak in two error corner cases
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:12:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1260421963.4165.0.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B205F73.90704@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:39 +0800, Helight.Xu wrote:
> Phil Carmody wrote:
> > From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
> >
> > If the second in each of these pairs of allocations fails, then
> > the first one will not be freed in the error route out.
> >
> > Found by a static code analysis tool.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/sched.c |    8 ++++++--
> >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> > index e7f2cfa..29ebc4a 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> > @@ -9841,8 +9841,10 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
> >  
> >  		se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_entity),
> >  				  GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
> > -		if (!se)
> > +		if (!se) {
> > +			kfree(cfs_rq);
> >  			goto err;
> > +		}
> >   
> if here has menory leak, why not  here!
> 
>     tg->cfs_rq = kzalloc(sizeof(cfs_rq) * nr_cpu_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
>     if (!tg->cfs_rq)
>          goto err;
>     tg->se = kzalloc(sizeof(se) * nr_cpu_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
>     if (!tg->se)
>          goto err;
> should I fix here?

The error path deals with that.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-10  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-09 17:45 [PATCH] sched: Memory leak in two error corner cases Phil Carmody
2009-12-09 17:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-10  2:39 ` Helight.Xu
2009-12-10  5:12   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-12-10  8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-10 12:29   ` [PATCH] [v2] " Phil Carmody
2009-12-10 13:37     ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix memory " tip-bot for Phil Carmody

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