linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: fix a possible memory leak

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205142327580.19403@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 23:28:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: fix a possible memory leak

On Fri, 11 May 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> Memory allocated by kstrdup should be freed,
> when kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL) is failed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

kmem_cache_create() in slub would significantly be improved with a rewrite 
to have a clear error path and use of return values of functions it calls.
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