From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Haofeng Li <920484857@qq.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Haofeng Li <13266079573@163.com>,
Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: transhuge-stress: fix potential memory leak on realloc failure
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:28:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6f38984-5f89-4a9d-a905-ddcdbd7510a3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_CA0C296180B9D75FF6A53D6B4F2130888D05@qq.com>
On 12.09.25 10:20, Haofeng Li wrote:
> From: Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@kylinos.cn>
>
> When realloc() fails in transhuge-stress test, the original code
> exits immediately without freeing the previously allocated memory,
> causing a memory leak.
What do you think happens when a process exits? :)
Correct! All memory ever allocated to that process gets freed, avoiding
any memory leaks.
--
Cheers
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-12 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-12 8:20 Haofeng Li
2025-09-12 9:28 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-09-12 10:10 ` Haofeng Li
2025-09-12 11:36 ` David Hildenbrand
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