[PATCH] bug fix for megaraid memory leak
I was going through the code looking for bits and pieces to pull across into the new LSI Logic beta megaraid driver /sys fs code and came across this one. LSI Logic have already fixed this issue for the 2.4 driver, and the new beta driver does not use the /proc filesystem at all, so no problem there. The problem is that resources are not freed upon certain error conditions in the in-kernel megaraid driver, to quote from Lester Hightower (who originally found the issue): "The problem occurs only in the circumstance where one reads one of the /proc/megaraid/hba<X>/diskdrives-ch<N> files where the card <X> does not have channel <N> on it. Most people would likely not notice this leak in normal operation, but due to the way that we monitor our MegaRaid cards in our company (we read these /proc entries every 180s) so we found the leak rather quickly, and unpleasantly (when your kernel eats all your RAM)." Anyway, here is the fix, compiled and tested OK for me.
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