Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertionerror (v2, fixed)

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 12:06:56AM +0100, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion error
> 
> In case when tree insertion fails due to already existing object
> error, pointer to allocated object gets lost due to lookup_object()
> overwrite. Free allocated object and return the existing one, 
> obtained from lookup_object().

We really need to return NULL if the tree insertion fails as kmemleak is
disabled in this case (fatal condition for kmemleak). So we could just
call kmem_cache_free(object_cache, object) in the 'if' block.

-- 
Catalin
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