RE: [PATCH] x86/ioapic: fix the irq_2_pin mem leak when destroy_irq

From: Liu, Chuansheng
Date: Tue Oct 16 2012 - 23:36:06 EST


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> From: yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Yinghai Lu
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:03 AM
> To: Liu, Chuansheng
> Cc: tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; mingo@xxxxxxxxxx; Siddha, Suresh B;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/ioapic: fix the irq_2_pin mem leak when destroy_irq
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Chuansheng Liu
> <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When destroying the irq, before free cfg, need to check
> > cfg->irq_2_pin and free it when it is not NULL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> i had that in another patch...
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/23/574
Sorry to not know that.
>
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> Subject [PATCH 01/13] x86, irq: Convert irq_2_pin list to generic list
> Date Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:48:47 -0800
>
> So we can use generic list helper function.
Does it really need the generic list with both prev and next pointers?
For irq_2_pin list, the next pointer seems be enough.

>
> Also make free_irq_cfg() free irq_2_pin list.
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>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git;a=commitdiff;
> h=4010f4dbd1b172e3080d3e6c459a58c4b575f081
>
> Yinghai
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