linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] iov_iter: fix memory leak in pipe_get_pages

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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 19:40:47 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iov_iter: fix memory leak in pipe_get_pages_alloc()

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 08:16:57PM +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> Make n signed to avoid leaking the pages array if __pipe_get_pages()
> fails.

Applied, with s/fails/& to allocate any pages/.