Re: Bug report: leak in isdn/module related part

Andreas Degert (ad@papyrus.hamburg.com)
01 Apr 1997 15:16:38 +0200


Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl> writes:

>
> This is a bug report related to either:
>
> kernel, modules (loading/unloading), isdn.
>
>
> Hiya,
>
> I am sorry this is a somewhat vague report, but I honestly believe there
> IS a bug, and maybe someone can reproduce it.
>
[...]

yes, I think I found it (before your post, in my easter
holidays). (The patch is against 2.0.29)

--------------------------------------------
--- isdn_common.c~ Fri Nov 22 21:33:10 1996
+++ isdn_common.c Mon Mar 31 01:46:57 1997
@@ -1694,6 +1694,7 @@
q->next = p->next;
else
dev->infochain = (infostruct *) (p->next);
+ kfree(p);
return;
}
q = p;
--------------------------------------------

The patch is already sent to the maintainer of the isdn subsystem.

ciao

Andreas