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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:19:17 +0100
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion
 error (v3)
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 04:44:48PM +0100, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>  [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion error
> 
>  In case when tree insertion fails due to already existing object
>  error, pointer to allocated object gets lost because of overwrite
>  with lookup_object() return. Free allocated object before object
>  lookup. 
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

Thanks. I applied it to my kmemleak branch and I'll send it to Linus at
some point (during the next merging window).

-- 
Catalin