Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:39:30 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | [PATCH] do_mounts memory leak |
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Hi,
The Stanford Checker identified a memory leak in init/do_mounts.c. This patch to 2.5.59 corrects it. Please apply.
Thanks, ~Randydiff -Naur ./init/do_mounts.c%LEAK ./init/do_mounts.c --- ./init/do_mounts.c%LEAK Thu Jan 16 18:22:02 2003 +++ ./init/do_mounts.c Tue Feb 4 21:46:58 2003 @@ -653,12 +653,6 @@ /* * OK, time to copy in the data */ - buf = kmalloc(BLOCK_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); - if (buf == 0) { - printk(KERN_ERR "RAMDISK: could not allocate buffer\n"); - goto done; - } - if (sys_ioctl(in_fd, BLKGETSIZE, (unsigned long)&devblocks) < 0) devblocks = 0; else @@ -669,6 +663,12 @@ if (devblocks == 0) { printk(KERN_ERR "RAMDISK: could not determine device size\n"); + goto done; + } + + buf = kmalloc(BLOCK_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (buf == 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR "RAMDISK: could not allocate buffer\n"); goto done; } |  |