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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: maneesh@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, chrisw@osdl.org,
	greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc2-bk15] sysfs_dir_close memory leak
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:19:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041202211932.I2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412030250.iB32oZQ02969@adam.yggdrasil.com>; from adam@yggdrasil.com on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:50:35PM -0800

* Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com) wrote:
> 	sysfs_dir_close did not free the "cursor" sysfs_dirent
> used for keeping track of position in the list of sysfs_dirent nodes.
> Consequently, doing a "find /sys" would leak a sysfs_dirent for
> each of the 1140 directories in my /sys tree, or about 36kB
> each time.

Yeah, I noticed this as well.  Why the BUGON()?

thanks,
-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-03  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-03  2:50 Adam J. Richter
2004-12-03  5:19 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-12-03 11:05   ` Adam J. Richter
2004-12-03 18:56     ` Greg KH
2004-12-04  2:39 Adam J. Richter
2004-12-04  7:35 ` Chris Wright

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