RE: [PATCH 1/1] hv: Use only one receive buffer per channel and kmalloc on initialize

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesper Juhl [mailto:jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:48 PM
> You are leaking memory in the failure path. If for example one or two
> allocations succeed but one or two fail, then you'll leak the two successful
> allocations.
> 
> I believe this should be
> 
>      if (!shut_txf_buf || !time_txf_buf || !hbeat_txf_buf) {
>              printk(KERN_INFO
>                     "Unable to allocate memory for receive buffer\n");
>              kfree(hbeat_txf_buf);
>              kfree(time_txf_buf);
>              kfree(shut_txf_buf);
>              return -ENOMEM;
> ...
> 
 
Oops, you are correct. Resubmitting the patch in a few minutes.

Hank.

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