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* [PATCH] sched: Memory leak in two error corner cases
@ 2009-12-09 17:45 Phil Carmody
  2009-12-09 17:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Phil Carmody @ 2009-12-09 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mingo; +Cc: peterz, linux-kernel

From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

If the second in each of these pairs of allocations fails, then
the first one will not be freed in the error route out.

Found by a static code analysis tool.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e7f2cfa..29ebc4a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -9841,8 +9841,10 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
 
 		se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_entity),
 				  GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
-		if (!se)
+		if (!se) {
+			kfree(cfs_rq);
 			goto err;
+		}
 
 		init_tg_cfs_entry(tg, cfs_rq, se, i, 0, parent->se[i]);
 	}
@@ -9929,8 +9931,10 @@ int alloc_rt_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
 
 		rt_se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_rt_entity),
 				     GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
-		if (!rt_se)
+		if (!rt_se) {
+			kfree(rt_rq);
 			goto err;
+		}
 
 		init_tg_rt_entry(tg, rt_rq, rt_se, i, 0, parent->rt_se[i]);
 	}
-- 
1.6.0.4


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2009-12-09 17:45 [PATCH] sched: Memory leak in two error corner cases Phil Carmody
2009-12-09 17:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-10  2:39 ` Helight.Xu
2009-12-10  5:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-10  8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-10 12:29   ` [PATCH] [v2] " Phil Carmody
2009-12-10 13:37     ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix memory " tip-bot for Phil Carmody

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