Re: [PATCH] selftests/media_tests: fix a resource leak

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Wed Nov 15 2023 - 10:33:53 EST


On 2023-11-14 04:38, zhujun2 wrote:
The opened file should be closed in main(), otherwise resource
leak will occur that this problem was discovered by code reading

Fixing resource leaks for one-off test cases (processes execute and
then immediately exit) seems to be something that would fit in the
definition of "trivial", so I would advise to perhaps send those
patches to kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ?

[...]

+
+ close(fd);

These added calls to close(2) miss handling of possible close errors
(check return value and use errno to print an error).

Thanks,

Mathieu

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