[PATCHv4 1/4] procfs: Introduce socinfo under /proc

Eduardo Valentin eduardo.valentin at nokia.com
Mon May 10 09:08:09 EDT 2010


On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 02:54:40PM +0200, Balbi Felipe (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:13:00PM +0200, ext Paul Mundt wrote:
> >You'll still need the show function, but all of the rest of this is just
> >duplicating what single_open() already does. If the socinfo string is
> >static you may also want to rework this a bit so you can just stash the
> >string in the proc_dir_entry private data. Combine this with something
> >like kstrdup() and you'll save yourself a bit of stack while you're at
> >it.
> 
> doesn't ksrtdup() cause memleak ?? Or is it only when used with 
> module parameters ??

I'm not aware of the module parameter stuff.. but the leak might be other thing
than kstrdup?
> 
> -- 
> balbi
> 
> DefectiveByDesign.org



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