Re: [RFC patch 2/5] smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpuhotplug threads

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Mon Jun 18 2012 - 04:47:14 EST


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:00:54AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> +
> +static int
> +__smpboot_create_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *ht, unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> + struct task_struct *tsk = *per_cpu_ptr(ht->store, cpu);
> + struct smpboot_thread_data *td;
> +
> + if (tsk)
> + return 0;
> +
> + td = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*td), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> + if (!td)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + td->cpu = cpu;
> + td->ht = ht;
> +
> + tsk = kthread_create_on_cpu(ht->thread_fn, td, cpu, ht->thread_comm);
> + if (IS_ERR(tsk))
> + return PTR_ERR(tsk);
> +

Hi Thomas, I might be missing something obvious but will not we leak td
allocated here if kthread_create_on_cpu failed?

Cyrill
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