Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: Add missing free.

2024-09-27 Thread David Hildenbrand 

On 27.09.24 05:01, zhangjiao2 wrote:

From: zhang jiao 

There is a memory leak in mkdirty, just free src before return.


Now explain to me why we care. The program will return immediately 
afterwards?


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David / dhildenb

Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: Add missing free.

2024-09-27 Thread Muhammad Usama Anjum 
On 9/27/24 8:01 AM, zhangjiao2 wrote:
> From: zhang jiao 
> 
> There is a memory leak in mkdirty, just free src before return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhang jiao 
Please find the first patch which missed this free() and add fixes-by tag.

> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/mm/mkdirty.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mkdirty.c 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mkdirty.c
> index 1db134063c38..af2fce496912 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mkdirty.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mkdirty.c
> @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ static void test_uffdio_copy(void)
>   dst = mmap(NULL, pagesize, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
>   if (dst == MAP_FAILED) {
>   ksft_test_result_fail("mmap() failed\n");
> + free(src);
>   return;
>   }
>  

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Muhammad Usama Anjum