Re: memory leak in call_usermodehelper()

[Andrew Morton]

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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