Re: [PATCH] sched: Memory leak in two error corner cases

From: Helight.Xu
Date: Wed Dec 09 2009 - 21:38:22 EST


Phil Carmody wrote:
From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx>

If the second in each of these pairs of allocations fails, then
the first one will not be freed in the error route out.

Found by a static code analysis tool.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e7f2cfa..29ebc4a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -9841,8 +9841,10 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_entity),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
- if (!se)
+ if (!se) {
+ kfree(cfs_rq);
goto err;
+ }
if here has menory leak, why not here!

tg->cfs_rq = kzalloc(sizeof(cfs_rq) * nr_cpu_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tg->cfs_rq)
goto err;
tg->se = kzalloc(sizeof(se) * nr_cpu_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tg->se)
goto err;
should I fix here?
init_tg_cfs_entry(tg, cfs_rq, se, i, 0, parent->se[i]);
}
@@ -9929,8 +9931,10 @@ int alloc_rt_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
rt_se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_rt_entity),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
- if (!rt_se)
+ if (!rt_se) {
+ kfree(rt_rq);
goto err;
+ }
init_tg_rt_entry(tg, rt_rq, rt_se, i, 0, parent->rt_se[i]);
}


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