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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

  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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