The patch titled block: fix memory leak in alloc_disk_node() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is block-fix-memory-leak-in-alloc_disk_node.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: block: fix memory leak in alloc_disk_node() From: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Fix a memory leak in alloc_disk_node(). Don't forget to free 'dkstats' when the allocation of 'part' failed. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN block/genhd.c~block-fix-memory-leak-in-alloc_disk_node block/genhd.c --- a/block/genhd.c~block-fix-memory-leak-in-alloc_disk_node +++ a/block/genhd.c @@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ struct gendisk *alloc_disk_node(int mino disk->part = kmalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, node_id); if (!disk->part) { + free_disk_stats(disk); kfree(disk); return NULL; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx are block-fix-memory-leak-in-alloc_disk_node.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