From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zubarev@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [2.4] Multiple memleaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:31:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030314003143.GA1787@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030313204556.GA3475@linuxhacker.ru>
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:45:56PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> There seem to be memleak convert_2digits_to_char() function that is triggered
> during normal operations.
> Also I think there are some memleaks on error exit paths
> ebda_rsrc_controller()
> All of this is addressed by below patch.
> 2.5 seems to have totally different version of this code (and no
> convert_2digits_to_char() function at all for example).
Yes, the 2.5 version should be backported to 2.4. There have been a
number of error patch fixes in the 2.5 version, care to make up a patch?
> Found with help of smatch + enhanced unfree script.
The 2.5 changes were found with smatch too :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-13 20:45 [2.4] Multiple memleaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver Oleg Drokin
2003-03-14 0:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-14 20:14 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-03-14 8:34 ` Björn Fahller
2003-03-14 8:57 ` Greg KH
2003-03-14 9:54 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-03-14 10:26 ` Oleg Drokin
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