linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in the proto

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Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:45:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	acme@...hat.com
Cc:	catalin.marinas@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in the proto_register function

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:08:08 -0200

> Please send networking patches to netdev@...r.kernel.org as well.
 ...
> If the slub allocator is used, kmem_cache_create() may merge two or more
> kmem_cache's into one but the cache name pointer is not updated and
> kmem_cache_name() is no longer guaranteed to return the pointer passed
> to the former function. This patch stores the kmalloc'ed pointers in the
> corresponding request_sock_ops and timewait_sock_ops structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
> 

Applied, thanks everyone.
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