linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: fix struct autogroup memory leak

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Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:30:45 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix struct autogroup memory leak

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:21 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:11 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> >  static inline void autogroup_free(struct task_group *tg)
> >  {
> > -	kfree(tg->autogroup);
> > +	if (tg->autogroup)
> > +		kfree(tg->autogroup);
> >  }
> 
> WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required
> #43: FILE: kernel/sched_autogroup.c:24:
> +       if (tg->autogroup)
> +               kfree(tg->autogroup);

Once upon a time, I knew that.

sched: fix struct autogroup memory leak

Add missing change to actually use autogroup_free().

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

---
 kernel/sched.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -8382,6 +8382,7 @@ static void free_sched_group(struct task
 {
 	free_fair_sched_group(tg);
 	free_rt_sched_group(tg);
+	autogroup_free(tg);
 	kfree(tg);
 }
 


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