2010-02-26 10:44:24

by naveen yadav

Subject: memory leak in case of Kernel module

Hi all,

I need small clarification, If I have a kernel module and in init I
create some memory using vmalloc. and i do not free it. I exit from
the module.

what happen to this allocated memory. Will kernel handle it and do free.


Regards
Naveen

2010-02-26 12:17:11

by Dan Carpenter

Subject: Re: memory leak in case of Kernel module

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:14:22PM +0530, naveen yadav wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need small clarification, If I have a kernel module and in init I
> create some memory using vmalloc. and i do not free it. I exit from
> the module.
>
> what happen to this allocated memory. Will kernel handle it and do free.
>

No. You need to free your memory explicitly.

regards,
dan carpenter

>
> Regards
> Naveen
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