From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757106AbZEDOh5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 10:37:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756170AbZEDOhg (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 10:37:36 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:64793 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756088AbZEDOhf (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 10:37:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:37:31 +0200 From: Ralph Wuerthner To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak Message-ID: <20090504163731.3675ea87@rwuerthntp> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [PATCH] alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak From: Ralph Wuerthner If alloc_vmap_area() fails the allocated struct vmap_area has to be freed. Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner --- mm/vmalloc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmalloc.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ overflow: printk(KERN_WARNING "vmap allocation for size %lu failed: " "use vmalloc= to increase size.\n", size); + kfree(va); return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); } -- Ralph Wuerthner