linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:21:43 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	dedekind@...radead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dedekind@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit

On 10/05/07, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:26 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > In drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c::paranoid_check_si() there's a memory leak.
> > If the call
> >       err = ubi_io_is_bad(ubi, pnum);
> > returns <0, then we'll return with out freeing (and thus leak) buf.
> > This patch eliminates the memory leak by freeing buf before returning.
> >
> > Problem spotted by the Coverity checker.
>
> It was already reported and fixed in our git tree. But thanks anyway.
>
Any idea when you'll be merging with Linus?
I just checked mainline git and the bug is still there :-(

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