linux-kernel - Re: mm_alloc()'ed structure leak

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Message-Id: <1234200538.16083.52.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:28:58 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: mm_alloc()'ed structure leak

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:47 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:45 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > -               return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
> > +               ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
> 
> noted and fixed.

I can confirm that with your patch, the leak is no longer reported.
Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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