From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] slab, kmemleak, minor, stop calling kmemleak_erase() unconditionally
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:33:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1B6C3C.7060503@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tnxr5rd4s6m.fsf@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Catalin Marinas wrote:
> "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> When the gotten object is NULL (probably due to ENOMEM),
>> kmemleak_erase() is unnecessary here, It just sets NULL to where already
>> is NULL.
>> Add a condition.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
>> ---
>> mm/slab.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
>> index 7dfa481..4e61449 100644
>> --- a/mm/slab.c
>> +++ b/mm/slab.c
>> @@ -3109,7 +3109,8 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
>> * per-CPU caches is leaked, we need to make sure kmemleak doesn't
>> * treat the array pointers as a reference to the object.
>> */
>> - kmemleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
>> + if (objp)
>> + kmemleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
>> return objp;
>> }
>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Applied, thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-06 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-02 7:55 [PATCH 0/2] fix for kmemleak_erase() (Re: Q, slab, kmemleak_erase() and redzone?) J. R. Okajima
2009-12-02 7:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] slab, kmemleak, minor, stop calling kmemleak_erase() unconditionally J. R. Okajima
2009-12-02 9:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-12-06 8:33 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-12-02 7:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] slab, kmemleak, bugfix, pass the correct pointer to kmemleak_erase() J. R. Okajima
2009-12-02 9:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-12-06 8:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-02 8:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix for kmemleak_erase() (Re: Q, slab, kmemleak_erase() and redzone?) Pekka Enberg
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