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| author | Mark Wallis <mwallis@serialmonkey.com> | 2009-01-26 17:32:35 +1100 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-01-30 11:34:11 +1030 |
| commit | 05dfdbbd678ea2b642db73f48b75667a23d15484 (patch) | |
| tree | 63d4cbf36a1fdf11e77008bd169d02446469cc8b /drivers/lguest | |
| parent | b44d49ab0954accefba4c71274ab58abe1c25c52 (diff) | |
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lguest: Fix a memory leak with the lg object during launcher close
Fix a memory leak identified by Rusty Russell during LCA09 by
kfree'ing the lg object instead of just clearing it when the
launcher closes.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wallis <mwallis@serialmonkey.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c index 34bc017b8b3c..b8ee103eed5f 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c @@ -307,9 +307,8 @@ static int close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) * kmalloc()ed string, either of which is ok to hand to kfree(). */ if (!IS_ERR(lg->dead)) kfree(lg->dead); - /* We clear the entire structure, which also marks it as free for the - * next user. */ - memset(lg, 0, sizeof(*lg)); + /* Free the memory allocated to the lguest_struct */ + kfree(lg); /* Release lock and exit. */ mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock); |