Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:21:43 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit |
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On 10/05/07, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:26 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > In drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c::paranoid_check_si() there's a memory leak. > > If the call > > err = ubi_io_is_bad(ubi, pnum); > > returns <0, then we'll return with out freeing (and thus leak) buf. > > This patch eliminates the memory leak by freeing buf before returning. > > > > Problem spotted by the Coverity checker. > > It was already reported and fixed in our git tree. But thanks anyway. > Any idea when you'll be merging with Linus? I just checked mainline git and the bug is still there :-(
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