document potential memory leak in unbounded channel

library/std/src/sync/mpmc/list.rs

@@ -547,6 +547,9 @@ fn discard_all_messages(&self) {
         }
 
         let mut head = self.head.index.load(Ordering::Acquire);
+        // the channel may be uninitialized, so we have to swap to avoid overwriting any sender's attempts
+        // to initalize the first block before noticing that the receivers disconnected. late allocations
+        // will be deallocated by the sender in Drop
         let mut block = self.head.block.swap(ptr::null_mut(), Ordering::AcqRel);
 
         // If we're going to be dropping messages we need to synchronize with initialization