RE: [ PATCH ] Memory leak fix for bug 57101.

From: Anurup m
Date: Thu Apr 25 2013 - 09:49:38 EST


Hi All,

Resending the patch as Plain text, with no mangled tabs.

The patch is as below

diff -uprN -X linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c
--- linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-22 03:08:45.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-24 23:03:31.531296160 +0530
@@ -287,5 +287,5 @@ const struct file_operations fscache_sta
.open = fscache_stats_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,
- .release = seq_release,
+ .release = single_release,
};

Regards,
Anurup M

-----Original Message-----
From: Lizefan
Sent: 2013年4月25日 17:01
To: Anurup m
Cc: 'linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; shyju pv; Sanil kumar; Nataraj m
Subject: Re: [ PATCH ] Memory leak fix for bug 57101.

On 2013/4/25 18:05, Anurup m wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There is a kernel memory leak observed when the proc file /proc/fs/fscache/stats is read.
> The reason is that in fscache_stats_open, single_open is called and respective release function is not called during release.
> Hence fix with correct release function - single_release. The patch is as below
>

The fix is obviously corect, but the patch is mangled so you should configure your
email client properly. Read Documention/email-clients.txt.

And when you've done that, remember Cc maintainers when you resend this patch, i.e.
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> and Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in this case.

> diff -uprN -X linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c
> --- linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-22 03:08:45.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-24 23:03:31.531296160 +0530
> @@ -287,5 +287,5 @@ const struct file_operations fscache_sta
> .open = fscache_stats_open,
> .read = seq_read,
> .llseek = seq_lseek,
> - .release = seq_release,
> + .release = single_release,

Look the tab was replaced with spaces.

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