Possible memory leak via tty_ldisc_try_get

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 05:22:07 EST


Hi Alan,

I noticed you pushed some changes to drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c recently.
I now get about 12 kmemleak reports like below (on an ARM platform):

kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xdfaffd60 (size 32):
comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294937946
backtrace:
[<c007b8fc>] kmemleak_alloc+0x14c/0x260
[<c0079624>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x90/0x98
[<c0147428>] tty_ldisc_try_get+0x14/0xac
[<c01475a4>] tty_ldisc_get+0x18/0x40
[<c0147850>] tty_ldisc_reinit+0x28/0x5c
[<c01478ac>] tty_ldisc_release+0x28/0x3c
[<c0143450>] tty_release_dev+0x3cc/0x428
[<c01434b8>] tty_release+0xc/0x14
[<c007eb60>] __fput+0x104/0x1c4
[<c007bb48>] filp_close+0x70/0x7c
[<c007bbc8>] sys_close+0x74/0xa8
[<c0022dc0>] ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Could you please check whether the code is leaking memory? Let me know
if you need more information.

Thanks.

--
Catalin

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