netdev - Re: [Patch net] cls_cgroup: fix memory leak in cls_cgroup

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Date:	Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:02:09 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch, jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net] cls_cgroup: fix memory leak in cls_cgroup_change()

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Fri,  3 Jan 2014 11:13:19 -0800

> Fix it by moving allocation to ->init().
> 
> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

I don't understand how the memory leak can happen, please explain
it in your commit message.

Also:

>  {
> +	struct cls_cgroup_head *head;
> +	head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);

Please add an empty line between local variable declarations
and code.

Thanks.
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