On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:52:03 +0100, John Whitmore said: > This might all be a mute point as I seem to remember someone saying > that memory allocation never fails in Linux and this can only happen > if the first two allocations work and the third fails.
If memory allocation never fails, it would be a moot point, not a mute point. However, memory allocation can indeed fail, and often does. And you are correct, there is a memory leak. While looking at that, I found another minor issue. Patch submitted. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
