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Message-ID: <84144f020610221322v2683a66bmf837ada1edea72e0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:22:59 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To: "Amit Choudhary" <amit2030@...oo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hopefully, kmalloc() will always succeed, but if it doesn't then....
On 10/22/06, Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...oo.com> wrote:
> So, if memory allocation to 'a' fails, it is going to kfree 'b'. But since 'b'
> is not initialized, kfree may crash (unless DEBUG is defined).
>
> I have seen the same case at many places when allocating in a loop.
So you found a bug. Why not send a patch to fix it?
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