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authorMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>2007-10-17 16:55:11 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-10-17 16:55:11 +0200
commitcd79007634854f9e936e2369890f2512f94b8759 (patch)
tree904e9d4f406bf5d48699027f415e6acd12cc9121 /kernel/sched.c
parentMerge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/... (diff)
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sched: more robust sd-sysctl entry freeing
It occurred to me this morning that the procname field was dynamically allocated and needed to be freed. I started to put in break statements when allocation failed but it was approaching 50% error handling code. I came up with this alternative of looping while entry->mode is set and checking proc_handler instead of ->table. Alternatively, the string version of the domain name and cpu number could be stored the structs. I verified by compiling CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and checking the allocation counts after taking a cpuset exclusive and back. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 0da2b2635c54..5e220bf7d4c4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5272,11 +5272,20 @@ static struct ctl_table *sd_alloc_ctl_entry(int n)
static void sd_free_ctl_entry(struct ctl_table **tablep)
{
- struct ctl_table *entry = *tablep;
+ struct ctl_table *entry;
- for (entry = *tablep; entry->procname; entry++)
+ /*
+ * In the intermediate directories, both the child directory and
+ * procname are dynamically allocated and could fail but the mode
+ * will always be set. In the lowest directory the names are
+ * static strings and all have proc handlers.
+ */
+ for (entry = *tablep; entry->mode; entry++) {
if (entry->child)
sd_free_ctl_entry(&entry->child);
+ if (entry->proc_handler == NULL)
+ kfree(entry->procname);
+ }
kfree(*tablep);
*tablep = NULL;