From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932467AbZHNPFW (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:05:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932416AbZHNPFW (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:05:22 -0400 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:34054 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932400AbZHNPFV (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:05:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:05:15 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: Daniel J Blueman Cc: Linux BTRFS , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [2.6.31-rc6, BTRFS] potential memory leaks... Message-ID: <20090814150515.GB28790@think> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Mason , Daniel J Blueman , Linux BTRFS , Linux Kernel References: <6278d2220908140803g554ab931o58672a1b4c11e245@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6278d2220908140803g554ab931o58672a1b4c11e245@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Source-IP: abhmt004.oracle.com [141.146.116.13] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4A857D2E.011D:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:03:04PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > There is good chance that the BTRFS kmemleak reports using 2.6.31-rc6 > [1] are false-positives, due to the overwriting of the static pointers > [2]. Does this ring true with anyone else? If these were real leaks you'd see errors during rmmod. They should be false positives. -chris