Bug 15461 - [cppcheck] found a memory leak in linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c at line 5111
Summary: [cppcheck] found a memory leak in linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c at line 5111
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: File System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: NFS (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: Trond Myklebust
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Reported: 2010-03-06 20:18 UTC by Martin Ettl
Modified: 2010-04-14 12:16 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6 git head
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Regression: No
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fix (356 bytes, patch)
2010-03-06 20:18 UTC, Martin Ettl 		Details | Diff
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Description Martin Ettl 2010-03-06 20:18:29 UTC 
Created attachment 25390 [details]
fix 

during a check of the current git head of the linux kernel with the static code
analysis tool cppcheck
(http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppcheck/index.php?title=Main_Page) the
tool discovered a memory leak in linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c

Please refer the attached patch, that fixes the issue.

Best regards

Ettl Martin
Comment 1 Trond Myklebust 2010-03-08 20:15:49 UTC 
Thanks! This issue was previously noticed by Dan Carpenter in
  http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=126787706909463&w=2
so his patch had already been queued up in my merge queue.
Comment 2 Trond Myklebust 2010-04-14 12:16:03 UTC 
Fixed in mainline by commit 7dd08a570dcf45d52155996fee688405635ee481 (nfs: fix unlikely memory leak).
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