From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7167B6B005A for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:04:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Xiaotian Feng Subject: [PATCH] slub: sysfs_slab_remove should free kmem_cache when debug is enabled Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:03:57 +0800 Message-Id: <1248253437-23313-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Xiaotian Feng List-ID: kmem_cache_destroy use sysfs_slab_remove to release the kmem_cache, but when CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled, sysfs_slab_remove just release related kobject, the whole kmem_cache is missed to release and cause a memory leak. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng --- mm/slub.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index b9f1491..05b69fd 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -4559,6 +4559,7 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s) kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE); kobject_del(&s->kobj); kobject_put(&s->kobj); + kfree(s); } /* -- 1.6.2.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org