Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:52:48 +0100 (CET) > Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Subject: sparsemem: sparse_add_one_section() may fail to allocate memory >> >> sparsemem: sparse_add_one_section() may fail to allocate memory, and must >> check >> whether the allocation succeeded before proceeding to touch the allocated >> memory. >> >> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> --- >> FIXME There are still some possible memory leaks in sparse_add_one_section(): >> - usemap is never deallocated >> - __kfree_section_memmap() is a not yet implemented dummy > > I already had > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc4/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/broken-out/mm-sparsec-improve-the-error-handling-for-sparse_add_one_section.patch
This one has an error in it. A patch to fix it is below. > and > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc4/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/broken-out/mm-sparsec-check-the-return-value-of-sparse_index_alloc.patch > > queued. Do they fix the problem, and should they be merged in 2.6.24? These two plus my fix below allow the hot plug add_memory() call to fail gracefully and for the platform code to continue to boot on the 128MB of boot mem. With ps3_defconfig the condition is only hit by the second stage kexec'ed (kboot) kernel, which is not generally built by end users, but there is a chance this condition would be hit by custom kernel config, so I think they should go in for 2.6.24. I'll continue to work on a fix for the memory allocation failure. -Geoff ------------------ Subject: sparsemem: Fix sparse_index_init return check sparse_index_init() returns -EEXIST to indicate the index has already been created. Exclude this from the error check on the return value. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/sparse.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ int sparse_add_one_section(struct zone * * plus, it does a kmalloc */ ret = sparse_index_init(section_nr, pgdat->node_id); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0 && ret != -EEXIST) return ret; memmap = kmalloc_section_memmap(section_nr, pgdat->node_id, nr_pages); if (!memmap) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/