Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in mm/slab.c::alloc_kmemlist()

[Jesper Juhl]

On 3/13/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/12/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> > >
> [snip]
> >
> > 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.
> >
> Ok, I'll take a second (and much more thorough) look at it tonight.
> And I'll be sure to describe whatever changes I make and the reasoning
> behind.
>
>
> > Patches against rc6-mm1 would be preferred please, that code's changed
> > quite a bit.
> >
> Sure thing.
>

Ok, I've been playing around with a few ways to resolve this, but I'm
a bit pressed for time and won't have properly tested patches ready
tonight. I will however keep at this, so you'll see patches
releatively shortly, just give me another day or two and I'll have
this fixed in a nice way (nice little task to work at :) ...


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