Re: [ 12/40] hw_random: make buffer usable in scatterlist.

[Rusty Russell]

Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> At Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:43:33 -0700,
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> @@ -307,6 +312,14 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
>>  
>>  	mutex_lock(&rng_mutex);
>>  
>> +	/* kmalloc makes this safe for virt_to_page() in virtio_rng.c */
>> +	err = -ENOMEM;
>> +	if (!rng_buffer) {
>> +		rng_buffer = kmalloc(rng_buffer_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> rng_buffer is now kmalloc-ed, but not kfree-ed. Shoudn't it be kfree-ed
> at hwrng_unregister()? If my suspect is correct, the same problem is
> in 3.8.3-rc1 and 3.0.69-rc1. I'm OK to make a patch, but it'll be after
> some hours.
>
> Corecct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, it would be nice to free it, but it really makes sense to free it
in module_cleanup() (which would have to be written, as the module
currently doesn't have one).

Cheers,
Rusty.
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