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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: Fix ressource leak in read_dump()
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:56:41 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sip5hlji.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53441149.8010902@suse.cz>

Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> writes:

> On 2014-04-06 02:05, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 12:36:49AM +0200, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
>>> Function read_dump() memory maps the input via grab_file(), but fails to call
>>> the corresponding unmap function. Add the missing call to release_file().
>>> Detected by Coverity: CID 1192419
>> 
>> It doesn't matter at all. All memory is freed on exit() in this program.
>
> The leak can disturb in valgrind output.

Yeah.  If release_file() didn't exist at all, I'd agree with Andi.  As
it is, I've queued the patch (with typo in title fixed).

Thanks!
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-22  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-05 22:36 [PATCH] modpost: Fix ressource leak in read_dump() Christian Engelmayer
2014-04-06  0:05 ` Andi Kleen
2014-04-08 15:10   ` Michal Marek
2014-04-22  7:26     ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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