From: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
To: Wade <neroz@ii.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] file locking memory leak
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:48:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063529292.18181.5.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F642723.6000203@ii.net>
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:30, Wade wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > This patch fixes a memory leak in the file locking code. Each attempt
> > to unlock a file would result in the leak of a file lock. Many thanks
> > to Martin Josefsson for providing the testcase which enabled me to figure
> > out the problem.
> >
>
> Is this a problem for 2.4 as well?
No, it was introduced in the locking-rewrite in 2.5
A new patch which fixes another leak as well has been produced by Willy,
now I can't reproduce any leaks at all. I assume it will be merged in
-mm or in Linus tree when he gets back.
--
/Martin
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2003-09-12 20:13 Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-14 8:30 ` Wade
2003-09-14 8:48 ` Martin Josefsson [this message]
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