From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261917AbULCFTk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:19:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261996AbULCFTk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:19:40 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:15236 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261917AbULCFTj (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:19:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:19:32 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: "Adam J. Richter" 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 Message-ID: <20041202211932.I2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <200412030250.iB32oZQ02969@adam.yggdrasil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200412030250.iB32oZQ02969@adam.yggdrasil.com>; from adam@yggdrasil.com on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:50:35PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * 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