From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: acme@redhat.com
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in the proto_register function
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:45:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081121.164533.133749247.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081121140808.GA20958@ghostprotocols.net>
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:08:08 -0200
> Please send networking patches to netdev@vger.kernel.org as well.
...
> If the slub allocator is used, kmem_cache_create() may merge two or more
> kmem_cache's into one but the cache name pointer is not updated and
> kmem_cache_name() is no longer guaranteed to return the pointer passed
> to the former function. This patch stores the kmalloc'ed pointers in the
> corresponding request_sock_ops and timewait_sock_ops structures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
>
Applied, thanks everyone.
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2008-11-21 14:08 ` [PATCH] Fix memory leak in the proto_register function Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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