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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: maowenan@huawei.com
Cc: edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: question about memory leak in ip_mc_del1_src
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:00:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190305.090020.1424252324111549025.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f48c0a1-f523-ac55-451a-2460050b0ee3@huawei.com>

From: maowenan <maowenan@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 11:33:03 +0800

> 
> 
> On 2019/3/5 2:16, David Miller wrote:
>> From: maowenan <maowenan@huawei.com>
>> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 20:47:42 +0800
>> 
>>> 			pmc->tomb = psf;
>>> 			rv = 1;         //if it does not kfree(psf), will it lead to memory leak after this line?
>> 
>> pmc->tomb points to psf, why should we free it?
> 
> Thank you David.
> Yes, pmc->tomb points to psf, but this is a delete path
> for ip_mc_add1_src, if we don't free psf, where it can be done?

When the 'pmc' object is destroyed.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-04 12:47 question about memory leak in ip_mc_del1_src maowenan
2019-03-04 18:16 ` David Miller
2019-03-05  3:33   ` maowenan
2019-03-05 17:00     ` David Miller [this message]

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