RE: memory leak in call_usermodehelper()

From: Srikumar Subramanian
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 12:15:21 EST


Hi,
I am using 2.4.20-8 Redhat 9 kernel.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:20 AM
To: Srikumar Subramanian
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; SrikumarS@xxxxxxx; BoopathiV@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: memory leak in call_usermodehelper()

Srikumar Subramanian <SrikumarS@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> >From my customized system call, I merely call call_usermodehelper() to
spawn
> a process. When I call my_system_call around 1000 times in order to spawn
> 'hello world' program, I noticed in 'top' program that system has lost 200
> KB of free memory.
> I just increased the iteration to 700000, I lost the entire 128 MB free
> memory from my system and eventually the system is freezed.
>

What version of the kernel were you using?
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