From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: mochel@digitalimplant.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: Fix memory leak in swsusp
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:48:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040611094844.GC13834@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040610233707.GA4741@gondor.apana.org.au>
Hi!
> > > > @@ -803,32 +804,31 @@
> > > > return 0;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > + err = -ENOMEM;
> > > > while ((m = (void *) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, pagedir_order))) {
> > > > memset(m, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
> > >
> > > BTW, what does this memset do?
> >
> > Here's incremental fix, it compiles but not tested.
>
> Thanks, but my question remains: why do we need the memset? The
> area allocated is either thrown away because it collides or is
> overwritten with the pagedir stuff straight away.
You are right, it should not be needed.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-11 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-09 13:04 Fix memory leak in swsusp Pavel Machek
2004-06-10 10:50 ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-10 10:56 ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-10 20:08 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-10 21:24 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-10 23:37 ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-11 9:48 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-06-11 10:16 ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-11 10:23 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-11 11:03 ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-12 3:17 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-06-12 4:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-12 11:10 ` Dave Jones
2004-06-13 15:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-12 22:07 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-06-12 23:32 ` Jeff Sipek
2004-06-13 15:57 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-13 8:15 ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-12 6:45 ` Herbert Xu
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2004-06-12 10:45 pavel
2004-06-12 22:09 ` Nigel Cunningham
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