The patch titled
rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
rcu-trace-fix-possible-mem-leak.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In the initialization of the RCU trace module, if
rcupreempt_debugfs_init() fails, we never free the the trace buffer.
This patch frees the trace buffer in case the debugfs fails.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c~rcu-trace-fix-possible-mem-leak kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c
--- a/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c~rcu-trace-fix-possible-mem-leak
+++ a/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c
@@ -308,11 +308,16 @@ out:
static int __init rcupreempt_trace_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
+
mutex_init(&rcupreempt_trace_mutex);
rcupreempt_trace_buf = kmalloc(RCUPREEMPT_TRACE_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rcupreempt_trace_buf)
return 1;
- return rcupreempt_debugfs_init();
+ ret = rcupreempt_debugfs_init();
+ if (ret)
+ kfree(rcupreempt_trace_buf);
+ return ret;
}
static void __exit rcupreempt_trace_cleanup(void)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
kbuild-ftrace-dont-assume-that-scripts-recordmcountpl-is-executable.patch
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