linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak

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Message-ID: <20160602114311.GR3725@vireshk-i7>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 17:13:11 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak

On 02-06-16, 21:37, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 16:52 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 02-06-16, 21:08, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 16:04 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The policy is copied (unnecessarily) and is never freed. Fix it by just
> > > > getting a reference to the existing policy structure and putting it
> > > > back.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> > > 
> > > When was it broken, always?
> > > 
> > > Cc: stable ?
> > 
> > Its a small memory leak and its not that we will fail on something. So
> > didn't bother to add those details, but in case they are required:
> > 
> > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.3+
> > Fixes: 227942809b52 ("cpufreq: powernv: Restore cpu frequency to policy->cur on unthrottling")
> 
> OK. I can't actually see where the copy is?
> 
> But if we are leaking even a small amount of memory in a loop like that, in a
> function that's run semi-regularly, then it's going to add up eventually.

Urg, it wasn't a memory leak actually. I misread.

I somehow thought that cpufreq_get_policy() is also allocating memory
for the policy, but it just memcpy's it into the callers buffer. So,
that's not a problem really.

This patch should be just dropped. Sorry for the noise.

-- 
viresh