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| author | Kimball Murray <kimball.murray@stratus.com> | 2006-02-02 00:08:59 -0500 |
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| committer | Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> | 2006-02-09 23:20:07 -0800 |
| commit | cacb5bd9e9c404b2e33f1d75f18604df34e16fad (patch) | |
| tree | 09207fca790390c5bc21113fee5e868399a910a5 | |
| parent | e7a9850f9a29508eb9ba7f43e733b01096bc171d (diff) | |
[PATCH] Input: mousedev - fix memory leak
Input: mousedev - fix memory leak
Apparently, "while true; do cat </dev/null >/dev/input/mice; done" causes
an OOM in a short amount of time. Funny that nobody noticed, it actually
is very easy to trigger just by switching between VT1 and VT7...
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/input/mousedev.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/input/mousedev.c b/drivers/input/mousedev.c index 2d0af44ac4b9..b329f10f970f 100644 --- a/drivers/input/mousedev.c +++ b/drivers/input/mousedev.c @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static void mousedev_free(struct mousedev *mousedev) kfree(mousedev); } -static int mixdev_release(void) +static void mixdev_release(void) { struct input_handle *handle; @@ -370,8 +370,6 @@ static int mixdev_release(void) mousedev_free(mousedev); } } - - return 0; } static int mousedev_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file) @@ -384,9 +382,8 @@ static int mousedev_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file) if (!--list->mousedev->open) { if (list->mousedev->minor == MOUSEDEV_MIX) - return mixdev_release(); - - if (!mousedev_mix.open) { + mixdev_release(); + else if (!mousedev_mix.open) { if (list->mousedev->exist) input_close_device(&list->mousedev->handle); else |