Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in mm/slab.c::alloc_kmemlist()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> The Coverity checker found that we may leak memory in 
> mm/slab.c::alloc_kmemlist()
> This should fix the leak and coverity bug #589
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  mm/slab.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc6-orig/mm/slab.c	2006-03-12 14:19:17.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc6/mm/slab.c	2006-03-12 14:22:40.000000000 +0100
> @@ -3366,8 +3366,10 @@ static int alloc_kmemlist(struct kmem_ca
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  		if (!(l3 = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct kmem_list3),
> -					GFP_KERNEL, node)))
> +					GFP_KERNEL, node))) {
> +			kfree(new);
>  			goto fail;
> +		}
>  
>  		kmem_list3_init(l3);
>  		l3->next_reap = jiffies + REAPTIMEOUT_LIST3 +

It's more complicated than that.  We can also leak new_alien.  And if any
allocation in that for_each_online_node() loop fails I guess we need to
back out all the allocations we've done thus far, which means another loop.
ug.

Patches against rc6-mm1 would be preferred please, that code's changed
quite a bit.