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[PATCH] Fix memory leak in vc_resize/vc_allocate 

Memory leaks can happen in the vc_resize() function in drivers/char/vt.c
because of the vc->vc_screenbuf variable overriding in vc_allocate().  The
kmemleak reported trace is as follows:

  <__kmalloc>
  <vc_resize>
  <fbcon_init>
  <visual_init>
  <vc_allocate>
  <con_open>
  <tty_open>
  <chrdev_open>

This patch no longer allocates a screen buffer in vc_allocate() if it was
already allocated by vc_resize().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Catalin Marinas 2006-09-29 02:00:25 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent bce9a234ce
commit 254e948b29
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -737,7 +737,8 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons) /* return 0 on success */
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
if (!*vc->vc_uni_pagedir_loc)
con_set_default_unimap(vc);
vc->vc_screenbuf = kmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vc->vc_kmalloced)
vc->vc_screenbuf = kmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vc->vc_screenbuf) {
kfree(vc);
vc_cons[currcons].d = NULL;