On 3/12/06, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The Coverity checker found that we may leak memory in
> > mm/slab.c::alloc_kmemlist()
> > This should fix the leak and coverity bug #589
> >
[snip]
>
> It's more complicated than that. We can also leak new_alien. And if any
> allocation in that for_each_online_node() loop fails I guess we need to
> back out all the allocations we've done thus far, which means another loop.
> ug.
>
Ok, I'll take a second (and much more thorough) look at it tonight.
And I'll be sure to describe whatever changes I make and the reasoning
behind.
> Patches against rc6-mm1 would be preferred please, that code's changed
> quite a bit.
>
Sure thing.
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