linux-kernel - Re: Possible memory leak in request

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:56:34 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in request_firmware()

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:42 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 
> IMHO, No.
> If nr_pages is not cleaned, pages pointed by pages[] will be freed
> by fw_dev_release, but they should be freed by vfree()
> in release_firmware. Right?

Yes, sorry -- you're right, and the original patch is fine.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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