Re: [PATCH] sched: Memory leak in two error corner cases

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 10 2009 - 03:02:53 EST



* Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -9841,8 +9841,10 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
>
> se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_entity),
> GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
> - if (!se)
> + if (!se) {
> + kfree(cfs_rq);
> goto err;
> + }

would be nice to turn this into a regular pattern of:

if (!se)
goto err_kfree;

where err_kfree does the kfree.

Thanks,

Ingo
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