From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@infinity.powertie.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename()
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:13:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060929101327.1ae1b793@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609282356.01962.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:56:01 +0200,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> If kmalloc() fails to allocate space for 'old_symlink_name' in
> drivers/base/core.c::device_rename(), then we'll leak 'old_class_name'.
driver-core-fixes-check-for-return-value-of-sysfs_create_link.patch (in
-mm) already fixes this (amongst other things).
--
Cornelia Huck
Linux for zSeries Developer
Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-29 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-28 21:56 Jesper Juhl
2006-09-29 8:13 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2006-09-29 8:48 ` Andrew Morton
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