linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

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Date:	Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:21:38 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

Hi.

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 09:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > There's no memory leak. In Suspend2 (and I believe swsusp, but will
> > admit I haven't carefully checked), every call to freeze processes has a
> > matching call to thaw them. The thaw call will invoke make_fses_rw,
> > which will free the memory that was allocated. If there's an issue, it's
> > that in the failure path thaw_bdev can be called when freeze_bdev was
> > never invoked. Having just realised that, I've just fixed it.
> 
> I was talking about the leak in the error path, where you exit the function
> without freeing the already allocated objects.

I know. I'm saying that there's no memory leak because any frozen bdevs
(and memory allocated to record them) are unfrozen (and the memory
freed) when we thaw processes before returning control to the user.

Regards,

Nigel

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