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Date:	Wed,  2 Dec 2009 16:55:49 +0900
From:	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	penberg@...helsinki.fi, catalin.marinas@....com,
	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] slab, kmemleak, minor, stop calling kmemleak_erase() unconditionally

When the gotten object is NULL (probably due to ENOMEM),
kmemleak_erase() is unnecessary here, It just sets NULL to where already
is NULL.
Add a condition.

Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>
---
 mm/slab.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 7dfa481..4e61449 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3109,7 +3109,8 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
 	 * per-CPU caches is leaked, we need to make sure kmemleak doesn't
 	 * treat the array pointers as a reference to the object.
 	 */
-	kmemleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
+	if (objp)
+		kmemleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
 	return objp;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.1.284.g5dc13

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