Re: Possible memory leak in function (reserve_range) not freeing pointer (regionid)

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The bug was found via the  memory-leak static analysis tool that we
have built on top of C-Atlas framework from EnSoft. You can check it
out (http://www.ensoftcorp.com/atlas/).

Thanks for clarifying things!

~Ahmed

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a real bug, but it's very minor.  To trigger it, you would have
> to modprobe and rmmod many many times in a loop.  If you report these
> sorts of minor bugs when the code is new, then most times people fix
> them but this one is old I doubt anyone is motivated to fix it.  Fixing
> it seems a little complicated to me as well.
>
> I suppose that linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the correct mailing list
> to report this but the truth is that no one reads that list.
>
> Anyway, it seems that you have written a good bug finding tool.  :)
> Congratulations for that!
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
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