The patch titled
Subject: tools/mm: Free the allocated memory
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
tools-mm-free-the-allocated-memory.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/tools-mm-free-the-allocated-memory.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Liu Jing <liujing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: tools/mm: Free the allocated memory
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:25:26 +0800
The comm_str memory needs to be freed if the search_pattern function call
fails in get_comm
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241022012526.7597-1-liujing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Liu Jing <liujing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c~tools-mm-free-the-allocated-memory
+++ a/tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ static char *get_comm(char *buf)
if (errno != 0) {
if (debug_on)
fprintf(stderr, "wrong comm in follow buf:\n%s\n", buf);
+ free (comm_str);
return NULL;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from liujing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
tools-mm-free-the-allocated-memory.patch
