Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Don't leak if allocations fail in mf_getSrcHistory | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:10:42 +1100 |
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On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 19:20 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Hi, > > If memory is tight and a dynamic allocation fails there's no reason to > make a bad situation worse by leaking memory. > > mf_getSrcHistory potentially leaks pages[0-3]. I believe the right thing > to do is to free that memory again before returning -ENOMEM - which is > what this patch does. > > I realize that the function is under '#if 0' so this probably doesn't > matter much, but I assume that the function is still there for a reason > (but I could be wrong, I don't know the powerpc code). > Anyway, I suggest we remove the leak.
Stephen is the iSeries maintainer, and I think he #if 0'ed the code. But I don't think it will ever be un-ifdef'ed, so should probably just be removed.
cheers
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