The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: free 'dummy_sc' in sc_fop_release() to prevent memory leak has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-free-dummy_sc-in-sc_fop_release-in-case-of-memory-leak.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-free-dummy_sc-in-sc_fop_release-in-case-of-memory-leak.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-free-dummy_sc-in-sc_fop_release-in-case-of-memory-leak.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: piaojun <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: free 'dummy_sc' in sc_fop_release() to prevent memory leak 'sd->dbg_sock' is malloced in sc_common_open(), but not freed at the end of sc_fop_release(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/594FB0A4.2050105@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c~ocfs2-free-dummy_sc-in-sc_fop_release-in-case-of-memory-leak fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c~ocfs2-free-dummy_sc-in-sc_fop_release-in-case-of-memory-leak +++ a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c @@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ static int sc_fop_release(struct inode * struct o2net_sock_container *dummy_sc = sd->dbg_sock; o2net_debug_del_sc(dummy_sc); + kfree(dummy_sc); return seq_release_private(inode, file); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-free-dummy_sc-in-sc_fop_release-in-case-of-memory-leak.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html