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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: Fix memory leak from percpu_init_late()
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:48:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6D4439.3080007@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819144956.27058.69126.stgit@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

On 08/19/2010 04:49 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The chunk->map memory block allocated in percpu_init_late() (as of
> commit 099a19d9) is later overridden in pcpu_extend_area_map(). The
> patch frees this existing block in the latter function. Found by
> kmemleak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Patch already pending

 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu.git;a=commit;h=206c53730b8b1707becca7a868ea8d14ebee24d2

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 14:49 [PATCH] percpu: Fix memory leak from percpu_init_late() Catalin Marinas
2010-08-19 14:48 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-08-19 15:59   ` Catalin Marinas

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