Re: [PATCH] mm/page_owner: Fix memory leak

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

(I dislike it when people set a trap for me, so on second thought I tell
you what I should have added right away.) 

On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 16:03 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 14:11 +0200, Valentin Ilie wrote:
> > Call kfree on list2 after using it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Valentin Ilie <valentin.ilie@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c b/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
> > index 77147b4..92292d5 100644
> > --- a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
> > +++ b/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
> > @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> >  
> >  	for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
> >  		fprintf(fout, "%d times:\n%s\n", list2[i].num, list2[i].txt);
> > +	
> 
> Checkpatch would have caught the tab you added here.
> 
> > +	kfree(list2);
> 
> You didn't even compile this, did you?
>  
> >  	return 0;
> >  }

Before you resend: what happens to the resources of a userspace program
when its main() returns?


Paul Bolle