From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751934Ab1AEKUr (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 05:20:47 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:58589 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751785Ab1AEKUq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 05:20:46 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix struct autogroup memory leak From: Peter Zijlstra To: Mike Galbraith Cc: LKML In-Reply-To: <1294222285.8369.2.camel@marge.simson.net> References: <1294222285.8369.2.camel@marge.simson.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:21:14 +0100 Message-ID: <1294222874.2016.231.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:11 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > static inline void autogroup_free(struct task_group *tg) > { > - kfree(tg->autogroup); > + if (tg->autogroup) > + kfree(tg->autogroup); > } WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required #43: FILE: kernel/sched_autogroup.c:24: + if (tg->autogroup) + kfree(tg->autogroup);