Re: [PATCH] sched: try to fix mm leak when freeing sched groups

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 21 2011 - 09:41:36 EST


On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 21:37 +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> When freeing sched groups, there is a sg (== sched_group_nodes[i]) not
> got freed.
> The relevant code is reshuffled to be clearer, and correct.

The code doesn't even appear to exist, what kernel are you patching?

> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> --- a/kernel/sched.c 2011-03-30 03:09:48.000000000 +0800
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c 2011-04-21 21:09:00.000000000 +0800
> @@ -7106,7 +7106,7 @@ static void free_sched_groups(const stru
> continue;
>
> for (i = 0; i < nr_node_ids; i++) {
> - struct sched_group *oldsg, *sg = sched_group_nodes[i];
> + struct sched_group *sg = sched_group_nodes[i];
>
> cpumask_and(nodemask, cpumask_of_node(i), cpu_map);
> if (cpumask_empty(nodemask))
> @@ -7114,13 +7114,11 @@ static void free_sched_groups(const stru
>
> if (sg == NULL)
> continue;
> - sg = sg->next;
> -next_sg:
> - oldsg = sg;
> - sg = sg->next;
> - kfree(oldsg);
> - if (oldsg != sched_group_nodes[i])
> - goto next_sg;
> + do {
> + struct sched_group *next = sg->next;
> + kfree(sg);
> + sg = next;
> + } while (sg != sched_group_nodes[i]);
> }
> kfree(sched_group_nodes);
> sched_group_nodes_bycpu[cpu] = NULL;



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