linux-kernel - [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion error (v3)

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Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:44:48 +0300
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion error (v3)

 [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion error

 In case when tree insertion fails due to already existing object
 error, pointer to allocated object gets lost because of overwrite
 with lookup_object() return. Free allocated object before object
 lookup. 

 Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

---

 mm/kmemleak.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 45eb621..5f05993 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *create_object(unsigned long ptr, size_t size,
 	if (node != &object->tree_node) {
 		kmemleak_stop("Cannot insert 0x%lx into the object search tree "
 			      "(already existing)\n", ptr);
+		kmem_cache_free(object_cache, object);
 		object = lookup_object(ptr, 1);
 		spin_lock(&object->lock);
 		dump_object_info(object);

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