Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT and JFFS2 oops

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> >
> > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> >
> > > Still leeks:
> > > +                            best_slen = tdl;
> > > +                            best_buf = tmp_buf;
> > > +                            best = this;
> > >
> > > You just throw away best_buf here, don't you?
> >
> > You're right.  It's even worse than that.  best_buf will contain the data
> > from the last compressor used.  And it will be prematurely freed.  Here's
> > a fixed version.
> >
> > Time for breakfast.
>
> hmm, that memcpy is costly. Just swap tmp_buf and best_buf instead?
>
> Time to go home :)

.. and you should delay the second allocation to when it is needed. After swapping ptrs, test if
tmp_buf is NULL and kmalloc if so.

 Jocke

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