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* [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix memleak in ring_buffer_free()
@ 2009-08-07 10:49 Eric Dumazet
  2009-08-07 15:15 ` Steven Rostedt
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2009-08-07 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Rostedt; +Cc: linux kernel, stable

I noticed oprofile memleaked in linux-2.6 current tree,
and tracked this ring-buffer leak.

This is a stable candidate.

[PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix memleak in ring_buffer_free()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index bf27bb7..c1d874e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -735,6 +735,7 @@ ring_buffer_free(struct ring_buffer *buffer)
 
 	put_online_cpus();
 
+	kfree(buffer->buffers);
 	free_cpumask_var(buffer->cpumask);
 
 	kfree(buffer);

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