On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:52:48 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: sparsemem: sparse_add_one_section() may fail to allocate memory
>
> sparsemem: sparse_add_one_section() may fail to allocate memory, and must check
> whether the allocation succeeded before proceeding to touch the allocated
> memory.
>
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> ---
> FIXME There are still some possible memory leaks in sparse_add_one_section():
> - usemap is never deallocated
> - __kfree_section_memmap() is a not yet implemented dummy
I already had
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc4/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/broken-out/mm-sparsec-improve-the-error-handling-for-sparse_add_one_section.patch
and
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc4/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/broken-out/mm-sparsec-check-the-return-value-of-sparse_index_alloc.patch
queued. Do they fix the problem, and should they be merged in 2.6.24?
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