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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:37:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A92C1C1.4010007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F5B06BAB751E047AB5C87D1F77A778869529DACD7@GVW0547EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net>

Miller, Mike (OS Dev) a écrit :
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jens Axboe [mailto:jens.axboe@oracle.com] 
>> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:01 AM
>> To: Eric Dumazet
>> Cc: Andrew Morton; Miller, Mike (OS Dev); linux kernel; 
>> stable@kernel.org; FUJITA Tomonori
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>> Andrew, I originally sent this 18 days ago and got no reply 
>> yet, maybe 
>>> could you get the baby ?
>> I'll add it for 2.6.32.
>>
> 
> I guess I'm missing something. Where is the leak?

Well...

Problem is : In normal path, kfree(inq_buff); is not called.

It is called only if a "goto clean4;" is done (error path,
and in this case, inq_buff is NULL anyway)

So we exit from cciss_init_one() without freeing
a "InquiryData_struct" structure.

I am pretty sure kmemleak would complain on this leak :)

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-24 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05 10:41 [PATCH] cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one() Eric Dumazet
2009-08-23  9:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-08-24  8:01   ` Jens Axboe
2009-08-24 16:03     ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2009-08-24 16:37       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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