linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/numa_emulation: fix potential memory leak

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1704101716160.116868@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
cc:     kirill@...temov.name, bp@...en8.de, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, tj@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/numa_emulation: fix potential memory leak

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Wei Yang wrote:

> numa_emulation() needs to allocate a space for phys_dist[] temporarily,
> while current code may miss to release this when dfl_phys_nid ==
> NUMA_NO_NODE. It is observed in code review instead of in a real case.
> 
> This patch fixes this by re-order the code path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>

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