From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
tixxdz@opendz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Surpress kmemleak messages on sysctl paths
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:51:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337698280.13348.47.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vgk1do2.fsf@xmission.com>
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:41 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:
>
> > The network code allocates ctl_table_headers that are used for the life
> > of the kernel. These headers are registered and never unregistered. The
> > head pointer is allocated and not referenced, as it never needs to be
> > unregistered, and the kmemleak detector triggers these as false
> > positives:
>
> The fix for this should already be merged into Linus's tree from the
> net-next tree for 3.5.
Ah, I didn't look at net-next. I just looked at 3.4 and didn't see
anything. If that's the case, simply ignore :-)
-- Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-22 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 0:43 Steven Rostedt
2012-05-22 14:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-05-22 14:51 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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