Re: [PATCH] memory leak in sysfs

[Patrick Mochel]

> please verify the following patch. We found a memory leak in sysfs. Entries
> in the dentry_cache allocated for objects in sysfs are not freed when the
> objects in sysfs are deleted. This effect is due to inconsistent reference
> counting in sysfs. Furthermore, when calling sysfs_remove_dir the deleted
> directory was not removed from its parent's list of children. The attached
> patch should fix the problems.

Thanks. Martin Schwidefsky had mentioned this to me at OLS (I presume it's 
the same problem). I haven't had a chance to look closely at the patch, 
but it's in my immediate queue..


	Pat


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