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Revision c7e12b838989b0e432c7a1cdf1e6c6fd936007f6 authored by Pavel Emelianov on 03 November 2006, 06:07:03 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 03 November 2006, 20:27:56 UTC 
[PATCH] Fix ipc entries removal
 
Fix two issuses related to ipc_ids->entries freeing.

1. When freeing ipc namespace we need to free entries allocated
   with ipc_init_ids().

2. When removing old entries in grow_ary() ipc_rcu_putref()
   may be called on entries set to &ids->nullentry earlier in
   ipc_init_ids().
   This is almost impossible without namespaces, but with
   them this situation becomes possible.

Found during OpenVZ testing after obvious leaks in beancounters.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Tip revision: c7e12b838989b0e432c7a1cdf1e6c6fd936007f6 authored by Pavel Emelianov on 03 November 2006, 06:07:03 UTC
[PATCH] Fix ipc entries removal
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