linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests/rtc:Fix a resource leak

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Message-ID: <20240710071650f7265b40@mail.local>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:16:50 +0200
From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To: Zhu Jun <zhujun2@...s.chinamobile.com>
Cc: shuah@...nel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/rtc:Fix a resource leak

On 09/07/2024 23:07:43-0700, Zhu Jun wrote:
> The opened file should be closed before exit, otherwise resource leak
> will occur that this problem was discovered by reading code

Can you elaborate on the leak? All the fds are getting closed on exit.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Jun <zhujun2@...s.chinamobile.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/rtc/setdate.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/setdate.c b/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/setdate.c
> index b303890b3de2..17a00affb0ec 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/setdate.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/setdate.c
> @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  	retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_RD_TIME, &current);
>  	if (retval == -1) {
>  		perror("RTC_RD_TIME ioctl");
> +		close(fd);
>  		exit(errno);
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 
> 

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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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