Catalin Marinas wrote:
From: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they
are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them.
#include "util.h"
@@ -389,6 +394,10 @@ void* ipc_rcu_alloc(int size)
*/
if (rcu_use_vmalloc(size)) {
out = vmalloc(HDRLEN_VMALLOC + size);
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK
+ /* avoid a false alarm. That's not a memory leak */
+ memleak_free(out);
+#endif
Maybe add a function memleak_false_alarm() (which just calls
memleak_free()) to document the fact that nothing is actually freed.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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