In tty_buffer_find(), it scans all tty buffers in free buffer queue, if it finds matched one, tty->buf.free will point to matched one's next buffer, so tty buffers that ahead of matched one are removed from free queue, they will never be used but they are not released, then memory leak happen.
This patch is to make tty_buffer_find() only extract the matched tty buffer, and keep others left inside free queue, so that they could be found and used next time. Signed-off-by: Chao Bi <chao...@intel.com> --- drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c index 9121c1f..7b10f7a 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c @@ -178,10 +178,14 @@ void tty_buffer_flush(struct tty_struct *tty) static struct tty_buffer *tty_buffer_find(struct tty_port *port, size_t size) { struct tty_buffer **tbh = &port->buf.free; + struct tty_buffer *prev = NULL; while ((*tbh) != NULL) { struct tty_buffer *t = *tbh; if (t->size >= size) { - *tbh = t->next; + if (prev == NULL) + *tbh = t->next; + else + prev->next = t->next; t->next = NULL; t->used = 0; t->commit = 0; @@ -189,6 +193,7 @@ static struct tty_buffer *tty_buffer_find(struct tty_port *port, size_t size) port->buf.memory_used += t->size; return t; } + prev = t; tbh = &((*tbh)->next); } /* Round the buffer size out */ -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/