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authorHuang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>2010-08-08 14:39:07 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-08-27 11:36:08 +0200
commita002d148426f40bc2b7dc066982eb177cdebeaaa (patch)
tree2b499e19cd7431b077eefe53dbcde8dbe71d3097 /mm
parent94cb121c9483f1ec9b1ef0c249fbfc49c628fa6b (diff)
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percpu: fix a memory leak in pcpu_extend_area_map()
The original code did not free the old map. This patch fixes it. tj: use @old as memcpy source instead of @chunk->map, and indentation and description update Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/percpu.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index e61dc2c..a1830d8 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -393,7 +393,9 @@ static int pcpu_extend_area_map(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, int new_alloc)
goto out_unlock;
old_size = chunk->map_alloc * sizeof(chunk->map[0]);
- memcpy(new, chunk->map, old_size);
+ old = chunk->map;
+
+ memcpy(new, old, old_size);
chunk->map_alloc = new_alloc;
chunk->map = new;