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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2008-07-30 14:20:55 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-15 17:54:40 +0200
commit5802294f1b1895ee19a3d0ae72805da453afb9de (patch)
treec6a09592897a8b9e0c6abf3a80070a8abb614744 /kernel
parentdd0078f4f04d939950a792c493d7d97d7ce663b8 (diff)
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rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
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. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c b/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c
index 5edf82c34bbc..35c2d3360ecf 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c
+++ b/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)