Commit 05dfdbbd authored by Mark Wallis's avatar Mark Wallis Committed by Rusty Russell

lguest: Fix a memory leak with the lg object during launcher close

Fix a memory leak identified by Rusty Russell during LCA09 by
kfree'ing the lg object instead of just clearing it when the
launcher closes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Wallis <mwallis@serialmonkey.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent b44d49ab
......@@ -307,9 +307,8 @@ static int close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
* kmalloc()ed string, either of which is ok to hand to kfree(). */
if (!IS_ERR(lg->dead))
kfree(lg->dead);
/* We clear the entire structure, which also marks it as free for the
* next user. */
memset(lg, 0, sizeof(*lg));
/* Free the memory allocated to the lguest_struct */
kfree(lg);
/* Release lock and exit. */
mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock);
......
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