Re: Fix memory leak in swsusp

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 15:14:06 EST


Hi!

> > @@ -803,32 +804,31 @@
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > + err = -ENOMEM;
> > while ((m = (void *) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, pagedir_order))) {
> > memset(m, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
>
> BTW, what does this memset do?

Someone (me?) was trying to be carefull, and was not carefull enough.
AFAICS it should be memset(..., PAGE_SIZE << pagedir_order)
--
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms

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