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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak via inotify_add_watch
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:03:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246971833.9451.39.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246932571.2866.90.camel@dhcp235-23.rdu.redhat.com>

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 22:09 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 23:03 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > I'm getting a few kmemleak reports like the one below (it may as well
> > be just a false positive). All of these allocations happened during
> > udevd.
> 
> Any chance you could give this a shot and see if it fixes it up for you?

I'll give it a try tonight as it only shows on my home machine. But it
doesn't apply cleanly on 2.6.31-rc2, there is a big hunk in
inotify_update_watch() which fails to apply. Are there other additional
patches needed?

-- 
Catalin


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 22:03 Catalin Marinas
2009-07-06 22:59 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-07  2:09 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-07 13:03   ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2009-07-07 13:11     ` Eric Paris
2009-07-07 16:24     ` Eric Paris
2009-07-07 21:30       ` Catalin Marinas

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