Garrett,

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:10 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: 
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Francesco RUNDO <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running LTP (I'm using ltp-full-20090731....but asap I will  
> > upgrade to latest)  on SH based platforms.
> > Now, during a test-session. I've noted that the test "mtest01"  
> > reduced drastically the system memory and after its execution this  
> > memory wasn't de-allocated.
> >
> > I've analysed the mtest01.c code and I've noted that no "free()"  
> > istruction was associated to the related malloc:
> >
> > ......
> > if((mem = (char*)malloc(chunksize)) == NULL) {
> > ......
> >
> > I've simply added a "free(mem)" of the allocated memory and the  
> > issue was addressed successfully.
> >
> > I've attached the trivial patch I've developed.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > --
> > Francesco
> > Added missed "free" istruction to release memory previosuly allocated.
> > Signed-off-by: Francesco Rundo <[email protected]>
> > --- ltp-full-20090731/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest01/ 
> > mtest01.c.origin    2009-02-26 13:02:27.000000000 +0100
> > +++ ltp-full-20090731/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest01/mtest01.c     
> > 2009-12-15 14:03:28.779240000 +0100
> > @@ -258,5 +258,8 @@
> >     else
> >       tst_resm(TPASS, "%llu kbytes allocated only.",  
> > original_maxbytes/1024);
> >   }
> > +
> > +  free(mem);
> > +
> >   exit(0);
> > }
> 
> 1. Does the version off cvs still have this issue?
> 2. Unless the test exits the code block immediately, I'd definitely do:
> 
> if (mem)
>      free (mem);
> 
> to avoid making a bad free call.

Have you made any changes to this ? I do not see any commits.

Regards--
Subrata

> 
> Thanks,
> -Garrett
> 
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