The patch titled
Fix a memory leak in the i386 setup code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fix-a-memory-leak-in-the-i386-setup-code.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Fix a memory leak in the i386 setup code
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~fix-a-memory-leak-in-the-i386-setup-code arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~fix-a-memory-leak-in-the-i386-setup-code
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1331,7 +1331,10 @@ legacy_init_iomem_resources(struct resou
res->start = e820.map[i].addr;
res->end = res->start + e820.map[i].size - 1;
res->flags = IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
- request_resource(&iomem_resource, res);
+ if (request_resource(&iomem_resource, res)) {
+ kfree(res);
+ continue;
+ }
if (e820.map[i].type == E820_RAM) {
/*
* We don't know which RAM region contains kernel data,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx are
fix-a-memory-leak-in-the-i386-setup-code.patch
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