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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: potential mem leak when system is low on memory
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>, Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> > func()
> > {
> >    for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) {
> >            var1[i] = kmalloc(size);
> >            if (!var1[i])
> >                 return -ENOMEM;
> > 
> > /* mem leak as var1[0] to var1[i - 1] is not freed */
> > 
> >    }
> > }
> > 
> > So, already the system is running low on memory and on top of it there
> > are leaks.
> 
> So you've found elementary programming bugs and it would
> be nice to point this places.
> 

As of now, when I come across such a leak, I fix it. But if I am unable to do so, I will
definitely send out a mail.

Regards,
Amit Choudhary
 

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