linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UBI: fix memory leak when use fastmap

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Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:12:05 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	wang.bo116@....com.cn
Cc:	artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, liu.dong3@....com.cn,
	cui.yunfeng@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: fix memory leak when use fastmap

Hi!

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:53 AM,  <wang.bo116@....com.cn> wrote:
> Hello,
>         Sorry, there is still something wrong with the previous patch's
> format, try to submit it again. When use ubi fastmap, there is a memory
> leak which will make destroy_ai() fail to free the slab alloced in
> scan_fast(). The following patch fix this problem by use a temporary
> "ubi_attach_info" variable in scan_fast().

Thanks a lot for your patch!

Did you test it well?
We need to make sure that it does the right thing for the following cases:
1. fastmap disabled, attaching a non-fastmap volume
1. fastmap disabled, attaching a fastmap volume
3. fastmap enabled, attaching a non-fastmap volume
4. fastmap enablled, attaching a fastmap volume

--
Thanks,
//richard
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