Re: [PATCH 3.7-rc8] ttm: Fix possible _manager memory allocationoops

From: Tim Gardner
Date: Thu Dec 06 2012 - 18:05:22 EST


On 12/06/2012 03:46 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:


ttm_page_pool_init_locked(&_manager->wc_pool, GFP_HIGHUSER, "wc");

@@ -817,6 +821,7 @@ int ttm_page_alloc_init(struct ttm_mem_global *glob, unsigned max_pages)
&glob->kobj, "pool");
if (unlikely(ret != 0)) {
kobject_put(&_manager->kobj);
+ kfree(_manager);
_manager = NULL;

I don;t think this is, since the kobject_put shuold free it.


kobject_put only frees memory referenced by kobj, but not the memory pointed at by _manager.

rtg
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