Re: [Patch]Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c: clean up this code

From: WANG Cong
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 21:27:25 EST


On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:17:41PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, WANG Cong wrote:
>
>>
>> This patch does the following cleanups for Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c:
>>
>> - Fix two memory leaks;
>
>For user space code? Memory will be released as soon as the program
>terminates.

Yes, it's of course in user space. But there really exists memory leaks,
since strdup(3) uses malloc(3) to allocate memory for new string, we
should use free(3) to free the memory, or this memory will be lost.

Regards. ;)


WANG Cong

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