On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 12:06:56AM +0100, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > [PATCH] kmemleak: do not leak object after tree insertion error > > In case when tree insertion fails due to already existing object > error, pointer to allocated object gets lost due to lookup_object() > overwrite. Free allocated object and return the existing one, > obtained from lookup_object(). We really need to return NULL if the tree insertion fails as kmemleak is disabled in this case (fatal condition for kmemleak). So we could just call kmem_cache_free(object_cache, object) in the 'if' block. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>