From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499816B00A1 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 10:37:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate4.de.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n44EbXOd200524 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 14:37:33 GMT Received: from d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.212]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n44EbWQf3805428 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 16:37:32 +0200 Received: from d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n44EbWOt000371 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 16:37:32 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:37:31 +0200 From: Ralph Wuerthner Subject: [PATCH] alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak Message-ID: <20090504163731.3675ea87@rwuerthntp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: [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 -- 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