On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:59 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 20:17 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > match_strdup() dynamically allocates memory and it is the responsabillity > > > of the caller to free that memory. In > > > drivers/target/target_core_file.c::fd_set_configfs_dev_params() two calls > > > are made to match_strdup() and in neither case is the allocated memory > > > freed, but instead it is leaked. > > > > > > This patch should take care of the problem by kfree()'ing the allocated > > > memory once it is no longer needed. It also makes sure to return -ENOMEM > > > if the memory allocation in match_strdup() should fail. > > > > > > Please review and consider for inclusion. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Ugh, this was my fault during the recent v4.0 configfs parameter > > conversion. Committed as 5c45b37 in lio-core-2.6.git/linus-38-rc1 and I > > will fix up the other handful of match_strdup() breakage and carry into > > scsi-post-merge-2.6.git/for-jejb shortly. > > > > Thanks for catching this.. > > > > You're welcome. > Yes, I did see a bunch of other match_strdup() related problems, but I > thought I'd just fix up one file initially to see the general reaction, > then do the rest later when this one had been merged. but if you want to > fix up the remainder, feel free. > > I guess we can merge this patch as a starting point? > Sure, the other two follow-up match_strdup() memory leak bugfix patches for target/iblock and target_core_configfs.c APTPL metadata token parsing have been included into the scsi-post-merge-2.6.git/for-jejb queue. Thanks again! --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
