linux-kernel - Re: Possible memory leak in request

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:38:05 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in request_firmware()

2009/7/8 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>:
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 19:01 +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
> There is one more leak in this area which I couldn't figure out where it
> should be freed:
>
> unreferenced object 0xc353e530 (size 512):
>  comm "cat", pid 3130, jiffies 4294903232
>  backtrace:
>    [<c01e6f6a>] create_object+0xfa/0x250
>    [<c01e753d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x5d/0x70
>    [<c01e223d>] __kmalloc+0x10d/0x210
>    [<c03b2d2f>] firmware_data_write+0x1df/0x270
>    [<c024163a>] write+0x13a/0x1b0
>    [<c01eae1c>] vfs_write+0x9c/0x190
>    [<c01eafcd>] sys_write+0x3d/0x70
>    [<c010319c>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38
>    [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
>
> Any idea? It looks like this is the kmalloc() in fw_realloc_buffer()
> (inlined in firmware_data_write).

I guess the leak is introduced in commit :
             commit	6e03a201bbe8137487f340d26aa662110e324b20
             firmware: speed up request_firmware(), v3

The attachment patch may fix the leak, please test and verify it.
Thanks.


-- 
Lei Ming

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