Re: [CHECKER] 32 Memory Leaks on Error Paths

From: Chris Wright
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 15:16:10 EST


* David Yu Chen (dychen@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> [FILE: 2.6.0-test5/fs/afs/cell.c]
> START -->
> 58: cell = kmalloc(sizeof(afs_cell_t) + strlen(name) + 1,GFP_KERNEL);
> 59: if (!cell) {
<snip>
> 126: error:
> 127: up_write(&afs_cells_sem);
> 128: kfree(afs_cell_root);
> END -->

Yes, this looks like a bug/typo. Patch below. David, this look ok?

thanks,
-chris

===== fs/afs/cell.c 1.2 vs edited =====
--- 1.2/fs/afs/cell.c Tue Sep 9 03:21:38 2003
+++ edited/fs/afs/cell.c Tue Sep 23 11:57:26 2003
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
printk("kAFS: bad VL server IP address: '%s'\n",vllist);
error:
up_write(&afs_cells_sem);
- kfree(afs_cell_root);
+ kfree(cell);
return ret;
} /* end afs_cell_create() */

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