netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in inet

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:36:09 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in inet_hashtables.h when NUMA is on

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:13:11PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> The inet_ehash_locks_alloc() looks like this:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> 	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
> 		x = vmalloc(...);
> 	else
> #endif
> 		x = kmalloc(...);
> 
> Unlike it, the inet_ehash_locks_alloc() looks like this:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> 	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
> 		vfree(x);
> 	else
> #else
> 		kfree(x);
> #endif
> 
> The error is obvious - if the NUMA is on and the size
> is less than the PAGE_SIZE we leak the pointer (kfree is
> inside the #else branch).
> 
> Compiler doesn't warn us because after the kfree(x) there's
> a "x = NULL" assignment, so here's another (minor?) bug: we 
> don't set x to NULL under certain circumstances.
> 
> Boring explanation, I know... Patch explains it better.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Good catch! Applied to net-2.6.  Thanks.
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