Re: [PATCH] modpost: Fix ressource leak in read_dump()

From: Michal Marek
Date: Tue Apr 08 2014 - 11:10:21 EST


On 2014-04-06 02:05, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 12:36:49AM +0200, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
>> Function read_dump() memory maps the input via grab_file(), but fails to call
>> the corresponding unmap function. Add the missing call to release_file().
>> Detected by Coverity: CID 1192419
>
> It doesn't matter at all. All memory is freed on exit() in this program.

The leak can disturb in valgrind output.

Michal

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