From: Ralph Wuerthner Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 23:02:59 +0000 (-0700) Subject: alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc5~18 X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2498ce42d3a4d1a498f1df4884da960087547db7 alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak If alloc_vmap_area() fails the allocated struct vmap_area has to be freed. Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index fab1987..083716e 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ overflow: printk(KERN_WARNING "vmap allocation for size %lu failed: " "use vmalloc= to increase size.\n", size); + kfree(va); return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); }