Re: [PATCH 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.8

From: Xiaolan Zhang
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 14:50:19 EST


Hi, Catalin,

I have identified the problem and will submit a fix soon. Could you let
me know to which tree should I apply the fix against?

thanks,
Catherine

"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/12/2006 06:33:54
AM:

> Hi Catherine,
>
> On 11/07/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is most common
> > orphan pointer 0xf5a6fd60 (size 39):
> > c0173822: <__kmalloc>
> > c01df500: <context_struct_to_string>
> > c01df679: <security_sid_to_context>
> > c01d7eee: <selinux_socket_getpeersec_dgram>
> > f884f019: <unix_get_peersec_dgram>
> > f8850698: <unix_dgram_sendmsg>
> > c02a88c2: <sock_sendmsg>
> > c02a9c7a: <sys_sendto>
> >
> > cat /tmp/ml.txt | grep -c selinux_socket_getpeersec_dgram
> > 8442
>
> I'm looking into the above leak report from kmemleak (the back trace
> to the kmalloc function). The "datagram getpeersec" patch went in as
> commit 877ce7c1b3afd69a9b1caeb1b9964c992641f52a. Have you noticed any
> abnormal increase in the slab statistics (especially size-64)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Catalin

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