Re: [PATCH] memcg: Free spare array to avoid memory leak

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On Tue,  6 Mar 2012 20:13:24 +0800
Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare
> array anymore. So free it to avoid memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 22d94f5..3c09a84 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4412,6 +4412,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
>  swap_buffers:
>  	/* Swap primary and spare array */
>  	thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary;
> +	/* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
> +	if (!new) {
> +		kfree(thresholds->spare);
> +		thresholds->spare = NULL;
> +	}
> +

Could you clear thresholds->primary ? I don't like a pointer points to freed memory.

Thanks,
-Kame

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