Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 6/7] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives | Date | Sat, 27 May 2006 13:23:57 +0100 |
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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> ---
ipc/util.c | 2 ++ kernel/params.c | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c index 8193299..412b7f3 100644 --- a/ipc/util.c +++ b/ipc/util.c @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ void* ipc_rcu_alloc(int size) */ if (rcu_use_vmalloc(size)) { out = vmalloc(HDRLEN_VMALLOC + size); + memleak_debug_false_alarm(out); if (out) { out += HDRLEN_VMALLOC; container_of(out, struct ipc_rcu_hdr, data)->is_vmalloc = 1; @@ -396,6 +397,7 @@ void* ipc_rcu_alloc(int size) } } else { out = kmalloc(HDRLEN_KMALLOC + size, GFP_KERNEL); + memleak_debug_false_alarm(out); if (out) { out += HDRLEN_KMALLOC; container_of(out, struct ipc_rcu_hdr, data)->is_vmalloc = 0; diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index af43ecd..412c712 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ static void __init kernel_param_sysfs_se unsigned int name_skip) { struct module_kobject *mk; + struct module_param_attrs *mp; mk = kzalloc(sizeof(struct module_kobject), GFP_KERNEL); BUG_ON(!mk); @@ -557,11 +558,13 @@ static void __init kernel_param_sysfs_se kobject_set_name(&mk->kobj, name); kobject_register(&mk->kobj); + mp = param_sysfs_setup(mk, kparam, num_params, name_skip); /* no need to keep the kobject if no parameter is exported */ - if (!param_sysfs_setup(mk, kparam, num_params, name_skip)) { + if (!mp) { kobject_unregister(&mk->kobj); kfree(mk); - } + } else + memleak_debug_false_alarm(mp); } /* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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