linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SOUND: OSS sequencer should be initialized after snd_seq_system_client

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Date:	Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:19:47 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SOUND: OSS sequencer should be initialized after
 snd_seq_system_client_init

On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 21:58 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> [PATCH] SOUND: OSS sequencer should be initialized after snd_seq_system_client_init
> 
> When build SND_SEQUENCER in kernel then OSS sequencer(alsa_seq_oss_init)
> is initialized before System (snd_seq_system_client_init) which leads to
> memory leak :

Thanks for investigating this. I haven't looked at the code in detail
but I find it a bit weird that initialisation order fixes the memory
leak. Shouldn't the memory allocation logic change slightly to avoid the
leak as well (that's in case someone manually inserts the modules in the
wrong order)?

-- 
Catalin

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