[PATCH] Trivial

* [PATCH] Trivial - fix memory leak in free_percpu
@ 2004-12-17 19:14 Philip R Auld
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From: Philip R Auld @ 2004-12-17 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds, akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel, trivial

Hi,
	This fixes a memory leak where the percpu internal structure is 
not freed. Repeated add/remove device illustrates the leak nicely.

Please apply.

Thanks,

	Phil


Signed-off-by: Philip R. Auld <pauld@egenera.com>

diff -rupN linux-2.6.10-rc3-clean/mm/slab.c linux-2.6.10-rc3/mm/slab.c

--- linux-2.6.10-rc3-clean/mm/slab.c	2004-12-03 16:55:13.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc3/mm/slab.c	2004-12-17 11:08:45.377108680 -0500
@@ -2573,6 +2573,7 @@ free_percpu(const void *objp)
 			continue;
 		kfree(p->ptrs[i]);
 	}
+	kfree(p);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_percpu);


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