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

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLFao1nP92mUH7M6UsQu16UqzP_Vi3WasSkQw8Q8tFBDjg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 09:37:38 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
	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 Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
> 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.

Applied, thanks!
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