Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:22:59 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: Hopefully, kmalloc() will always succeed, but if it doesn't then.... |
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On 10/22/06, Amit Choudhary <amit2030@yahoo.com> wrote: > So, if memory allocation to 'a' fails, it is going to kfree 'b'. But since 'b' > is not initialized, kfree may crash (unless DEBUG is defined). > > I have seen the same case at many places when allocating in a loop.
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