linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] percpu: Fix memory leak from percpu_init

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Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:59:14 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: Fix memory leak from percpu_init_late()

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:48 +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 04:49 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > The chunk->map memory block allocated in percpu_init_late() (as of
> > commit 099a19d9) is later overridden in pcpu_extend_area_map(). The
> > patch frees this existing block in the latter function. Found by
> > kmemleak.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> 
> Patch already pending
> 
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu.git;a=commit;h=206c53730b8b1707becca7a868ea8d14ebee24d2

Great, thanks, I'm dropping mine.

-- 
Catalin

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