[PATCH RESEND] memcg: Free spare array to avoid memory leak

From: Sha Zhengju
Date: Thu Apr 19 2012 - 04:55:49 EST


From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>

When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare
array anymore. So free it to avoid memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
Hi, Andrew

This patch has been reviewed days ago. Do you have any comments about it?

Thanks,
Sha

mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 22d94f5..3c09a84 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4412,6 +4412,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
swap_buffers:
/* Swap primary and spare array */
thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary;
+ /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
+ if (!new) {
+ kfree(thresholds->spare);
+ thresholds->spare = NULL;
+ }
+
rcu_assign_pointer(thresholds->primary, new);

/* To be sure that nobody uses thresholds */
--
1.7.4.1

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