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

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Message-ID: <20120419091917.GA23597@arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:19:17 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion
 error (v3)

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 04:44:48PM +0100, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>  [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>

Thanks. I applied it to my kmemleak branch and I'll send it to Linus at
some point (during the next merging window).

-- 
Catalin
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