Re: [PATCH 2/2] rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 17:20:55 EST


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:20:55PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> In the initialization of the RCU trace module, if
> rcupreempt_debugfs_init() fails, we never free the the trace buffer.
>
> This patch frees the trace buffer in case the debugfs fails.

Looks good as well!

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-compile.git/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-compile.git.orig/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c 2008-07-15 23:55:47.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-compile.git/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c 2008-07-30 13:58:41.000000000 -0400
> @@ -308,11 +308,16 @@ out:
>
> static int __init rcupreempt_trace_init(void)
> {
> + int ret;
> +
> mutex_init(&rcupreempt_trace_mutex);
> rcupreempt_trace_buf = kmalloc(RCUPREEMPT_TRACE_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!rcupreempt_trace_buf)
> return 1;
> - return rcupreempt_debugfs_init();
> + ret = rcupreempt_debugfs_init();
> + if (ret)
> + kfree(rcupreempt_trace_buf);
> + return ret;
> }
>
> static void __exit rcupreempt_trace_cleanup(void)
>
> --
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