RE: [PATCH 1/1] hv: Use only one receive buffer per channel andkmalloc on initialize

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Mon Dec 13 2010 - 16:12:36 EST


On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Hank Janssen wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jesper Juhl [mailto:jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:48 PM
> > You are leaking memory in the failure path. If for example one or two
> > allocations succeed but one or two fail, then you'll leak the two successful
> > allocations.
> >
> > I believe this should be
> >
> > if (!shut_txf_buf || !time_txf_buf || !hbeat_txf_buf) {
> > printk(KERN_INFO
> > "Unable to allocate memory for receive buffer\n");
> > kfree(hbeat_txf_buf);
> > kfree(time_txf_buf);
> > kfree(shut_txf_buf);
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > ...
> >
>
> Oops, you are correct. Resubmitting the patch in a few minutes.
>
Ohh and another little detail; shouldn't this log message be a
KERN_WARNING level message?
And perhaps the log text should include "HyperV" or something so it's
clear where it comes from..?

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