On 2013-05-05 Sunday at 06:54 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > A bunch of fixes for a moderately common class of bugs: file with > single_open() done by its ->open() and seq_release as its ->release(). > That leaks; fortunately, it's not _too_ common (either people manage to > RTFM that says "When using single_open(), the programmer should use > single_release() instead of seq_release() in the file_operations structure > to avoid a memory leak", or they just copy a correct instance), but grepping > through the tree has caught quite a pile. All of that is, AFAICS, -stable > fodder, for as far as the patches apply. … …
Some 40 memory leaks plugged at once … quite elegant :) Additionally maybe your cunning grep commands are checkpatch.pl fodder? At patch level risk of false warnings probably would be lower than at C code level. -- Regards Roland Eggner
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