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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible kernel memory leaks
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 18:00:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tnxvernwipk.fsf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44797BEF.70206@gmail.com> (Catalin Marinas's message of "Sun, 28 May 2006 11:31:11 +0100")

Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> wrote:
> - acpi_evaluate_integer in drivers/acpi/utils.c - "element" is not freed
> on the error path (if Coverity hasn't seen this, it was probably
> confused by the return_* macros)

This is simpler. I'll send a separate patch for it.

> - acpi_ev_execute_reg_method in drivers/acpi/events/evregion.c - I'm not
> sure about this but kmemleak reports an orphan pointer on the following
> allocation path:
>   c0159372: <kmem_cache_alloc>
>   c01ffa07: <acpi_os_acquire_object>
>   c0215b3a: <acpi_ut_allocate_object_desc_dbg>
>   c02159ce: <acpi_ut_create_internal_object_dbg>
>   c0203784: <acpi_ev_execute_reg_method>
>   c0203db4: <acpi_ev_reg_run>
>   c020ed17: <acpi_ns_walk_namespace>
>   c0203d6b: <acpi_ev_execute_reg_methods>
> Is acpi_ut_remove_reference actually removing the params[0/1]?

I'll need to enable the ACPI debug output as I can't find the leak by
only looking at the code. I'll let you know if there is a leak.

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-30 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-28 10:31 Possible kernel memory leaks Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 17:00 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2006-05-30 17:03 ` [PATCH] Fix the memory leak in acpi_evaluate_integer() Catalin Marinas
2006-05-31 13:47 ` Possible kernel memory leaks Catalin Marinas
2006-06-02  9:41   ` Catalin Marinas

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