On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:18:03 +0200 Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:00:07AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > Most drivers just use the result of request_region() as a pass/fail indicator. > > Only a very few of them actually save the result pointer; mostly they just pass > > bar to release_region(). > > > > That was another thing which was concerning me. request_region() > returns freshly allocated memory. Isn't it a leak to discard this? If I knew the answer, I would have already replied... I was hoping that someone else could help out here. I expect that if there was a leak, someone would have already noticed and pointed this out to us. OTOH, this could be the last class of kernel leaks that needs to be fixed... I dunno. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
