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From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: dedekind@infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dedekind@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:21:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490706121521q1192b9dbp6b2adff087fc01d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178784573.3734.5.camel@sauron>

On 10/05/07, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:26 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > In drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c::paranoid_check_si() there's a memory leak.
> > If the call
> >       err = ubi_io_is_bad(ubi, pnum);
> > returns <0, then we'll return with out freeing (and thus leak) buf.
> > This patch eliminates the memory leak by freeing buf before returning.
> >
> > Problem spotted by the Coverity checker.
>
> It was already reported and fixed in our git tree. But thanks anyway.
>
Any idea when you'll be merging with Linus?
I just checked mainline git and the bug is still there :-(

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-09 22:26 Jesper Juhl
2007-05-10  8:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-06-12 22:21   ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2007-06-17 11:26     ` Artem Bityutskiy

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