From: Kimball Murray Input: mousedev - fix memory leak Apparently, "while true; do cat /dev/input/mice; done" causes an OOM in a short amount of time. Funny that nobody noticed, it actually is very easy to trigger just by switching between VT1 and VT7... Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov --- drivers/input/mousedev.c | 9 +++------ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: work/drivers/input/mousedev.c =================================================================== --- work.orig/drivers/input/mousedev.c +++ work/drivers/input/mousedev.c @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static void mousedev_free(struct mousede kfree(mousedev); } -static int mixdev_release(void) +static void mixdev_release(void) { struct input_handle *handle; @@ -370,8 +370,6 @@ static int mixdev_release(void) mousedev_free(mousedev); } } - - return 0; } static int mousedev_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file) @@ -384,9 +382,8 @@ static int mousedev_release(struct inode if (!--list->mousedev->open) { if (list->mousedev->minor == MOUSEDEV_MIX) - return mixdev_release(); - - if (!mousedev_mix.open) { + mixdev_release(); + else if (!mousedev_mix.open) { if (list->mousedev->exist) input_close_device(&list->mousedev->handle); else