[PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix memleak in ring_buffer_free()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Aug 07 2009 - 06:50:41 EST


I noticed oprofile memleaked in linux-2.6 current tree,
and tracked this ring-buffer leak.

This is a stable candidate.

[PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix memleak in ring_buffer_free()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index bf27bb7..c1d874e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -735,6 +735,7 @@ ring_buffer_free(struct ring_buffer *buffer)

put_online_cpus();

+ kfree(buffer->buffers);
free_cpumask_var(buffer->cpumask);

kfree(buffer);
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