(sorry if this is received twice)
From Rusty's tutorial, fix the memory leak in close() by using kfree instead of
just zeroing the memory.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wallis <lgu...@markwallis.id.au>
--- drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c.orig 2009-01-22 10:20:33.000000000 +1100
+++ drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c 2009-01-22 10:55:57.000000000 +1100
@@ -310,9 +310,8 @@
* kmalloc()ed string, either of which is ok to hand to kfree(). */
if (!IS_ERR(lg->dead))
kfree(lg->dead);
- /* We clear the entire structure, which also marks it as free for the
- * next user. */
- memset(lg, 0, sizeof(*lg));
+ /* Free the memory allocated to the lguest_struct */
+ kfree(lg);
/* Release lock and exit. */
mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock);
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