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From: Michael Ellerman
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Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Don't leak if allocations fail in mf_getSrcHistory
Date: Monday, November 1, 2010 - 4:10 am
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 19:20 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
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> Hi, > > If memory is tight and a dynamic allocation fails there's no reason to > make a bad situation worse by leaking memory. > > mf_getSrcHistory potentially leaks pages[0-3]. I believe the right thing > to do is to free that memory again before returning -ENOMEM - which is > what this patch does. > > I realize that the function is under '#if 0' so this probably doesn't > matter much, but I assume that the function is still there for a reason > (but I could be wrong, I don't know the powerpc code). > Anyway, I suggest we remove the leak.
Stephen is the iSeries maintainer, and I think he #if 0'ed the code. But I don't think it will ever be un-ifdef'ed, so should probably just be removed. cheers
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[PATCH] iSeries: Don't leak if allocations fail in mf_getS ...
, Jesper Juhl
, (Sat Oct 30, 10:20 am)
Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Don't leak if allocations fail in mf_ ...
, Michael Ellerman
, (Mon Nov 1, 4:10 am)
Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory function.
, Jesper Juhl
, (Mon Nov 1, 1:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Don't leak if allocations fail in mf_ ...
, Stephen Rothwell
, (Mon Nov 1, 1:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory function.
, Jesper Juhl
, (Mon Nov 1, 2:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory function.
, Stephen Rothwell
, (Mon Nov 1, 2:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory function.
, Michael Ellerman
, (Mon Nov 1, 5:20 pm)
[PATCH v2] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory functio ...
, Jesper Juhl
, (Thu Nov 4, 4:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory fun ...
, Jesper Juhl
, (Thu Nov 18, 12:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory fun ...
, Jesper Juhl
, (Thu Nov 18, 2:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] iSeries: Remove unused mf_getSrcHistory fun ...
, Michael Ellerman
, (Thu Nov 18, 2:57 pm)
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