Re: [Patch](Resend) mm/sparse.c: Improve the error handling for sparse_add_one_section()

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 10:26 +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> 
> @@ -414,7 +418,7 @@ int sparse_add_one_section(struct zone *
>  out:
>         pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
>         if (ret <= 0)
> -               __kfree_section_memmap(memmap, nr_pages);
> +               kfree(usemap);
>         return ret;
>  }
>  #endif 

Why did you get rid of the memmap free here?  A bad return from
sparse_init_one_section() indicates that we didn't use the memmap, so it
will leak otherwise.

-- Dave

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