Re: BUG : Memory leak in Linux 2.4.2 MIPS SMP kernel

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:36:32PM -0800, Krishna Kondaka wrote:

> extern inline void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>         kfree((void *)mm->context);
> #else
>         /* Nothing to do.  */
> #endif
> }
> 
> And when I tested this I do not see the memory leak any more.

Almost correct, as James already explained you have to check for a
non-null pointer first.  We got a more elegant implementation of
context switching which I'll add to CVS asap; it gets away without
any memory allocation.

  Ralf