netdev - Re: [PATCH][v2] net: sysctl: fix a kmemleak warning

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Message-Id: <20151023.062358.1394064585534232669.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:23:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] net: sysctl: fix a kmemleak warning

From: roy.qing.li@...il.com
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:59:49 +0800

> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> 
> the returned buffer of register_sysctl() is stored into net_header
> variable, but net_header is not used after, and compiler maybe
> optimise the variable out, and lead kmemleak reported the below warning
 ...
> Add the possible error handle to free the net_header to remove the
> kmemleak warning
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>

Applied.
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