lguest: Fix a memory leak with the lg object during launcher close
Fix a memory leak identified by Rusty Russell during LCA09 by
kfree'ing the lg object instead of just clearing it when the
launcher closes.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wallis <mwallis@serialmonkey.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
index 34bc017..b8ee103 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
@@ -307,9 +307,8 @@
* kmalloc()ed string, either of which is ok to hand to kfree(). */
if (!IS_ERR(lg->dead))
kfree(lg->dead);
- /* We clear the entire structure, which also marks it as free for the
- * next user. */
- memset(lg, 0, sizeof(*lg));
+ /* Free the memory allocated to the lguest_struct */
+ kfree(lg);
/* Release lock and exit. */
mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock);