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authorXiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>2010-08-16 09:54:28 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-08-16 09:55:01 +0200
commit8d9df9f0844ed87541453a3ef91bfc9f487053b7 (patch)
treeb9779092c34a47de0cb268f4a631bc1e0024a01a /kernel/workqueue.c
parentda5cabf80e2433131bf0ed8993abc0f7ea618c73 (diff)
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workqueue: free rescuer on destroy_workqueue
wq->rescuer is not freed when wq is destroyed, leads a memory leak then. This patch also remove a redundant line. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 2994a0e3a61c..1001b6e3fcbd 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2782,7 +2782,6 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *name,
if (IS_ERR(rescuer->task))
goto err;
- wq->rescuer = rescuer;
rescuer->task->flags |= PF_THREAD_BOUND;
wake_up_process(rescuer->task);
}
@@ -2848,6 +2847,7 @@ void destroy_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
if (wq->flags & WQ_RESCUER) {
kthread_stop(wq->rescuer->task);
free_mayday_mask(wq->mayday_mask);
+ kfree(wq->rescuer);
}
free_cwqs(wq);