Re: [PATCH] Fix strange size check in __get_vm_area_node()

[Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:39, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Recently, __get_vm_area_node() was changed like following
>
>  	if (unlikely(!area))
>  		return NULL;
>
> -	if (unlikely(!size)) {
> -		kfree (area);
> +	if (unlikely(!size))
>  		return NULL;
> -	}
>
> It is leaking `area', also original code seems strange already.
> Probably, we wanted to do this patch.
>

Indeed. I checked my original patch and it was correct. I dont know what 
happened then...

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/23/86

Eric
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