From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Ronit Halder <ronit.crj@gmail.com>
Cc: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@gmail.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>,
driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: dgap: fix memory leak in dgap_parsefile()
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:04:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151001150450.GE7289@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAm8cU7Y0t5xDLuY1SrNq9UjT6+3bDskZtXWUYb2-1u89fGMRQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 09:11:31AM +0530, Ronit Halder wrote:
> The existing dgap_parsefile() rejects invalid config file.
> But before we know that config file is invalid a lot of memory leak
> can happen. Removing the chances of memory leak won't heart anyone.
>
Why not just reject it earlier instead of allocating more data?
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-01 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 6:09 [PATCH] staging: dgap: fix memory leak in dgap_parsefile() Ronit Halder
2015-09-30 11:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-10-01 3:41 ` Ronit Halder
2015-10-01 15:04 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-10-01 15:16 ` Ronit Halder
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