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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix memory leak in mm/slab.c::alloc_kmemlist()
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> The Coverity checker found that we may leak memory in
> mm/slab.c::alloc_kmemlist()
> This should fix the leak and coverity bug #589
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> mm/slab.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc6-orig/mm/slab.c 2006-03-12 14:19:17.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc6/mm/slab.c 2006-03-12 14:22:40.000000000 +0100
> @@ -3366,8 +3366,10 @@ static int alloc_kmemlist(struct kmem_ca
> continue;
> }
> if (!(l3 = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct kmem_list3),
> - GFP_KERNEL, node)))
> + GFP_KERNEL, node))) {
> + kfree(new);
> goto fail;
> + }
>
> kmem_list3_init(l3);
> l3->next_reap = jiffies + REAPTIMEOUT_LIST3 +

It's more complicated than that. We can also leak new_alien. And if any
allocation in that for_each_online_node() loop fails I guess we need to
back out all the allocations we've done thus far, which means another loop.
ug.

Patches against rc6-mm1 would be preferred please, that code's changed
quite a bit.

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