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

From: Michal Piotrowski
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 12:59:15 EST


On 11/07/06, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/07/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So if we got 3970
> orphan pointer 0xf5a6fd60 (size 39):
> c0173822: <__kmalloc>
> c01df500: <context_struct_to_string>
[...]
> and 4673
> orphan pointer 0xf4249488 (size 29):
> c0173822: <__kmalloc>
> c01df500: <context_struct_to_string>
[...]
> It's not a memleak?

Not exactly. What I meant is that if you have a corresponding number
of reports from __alloc_skb, maybe they were false positives and the
block wasn't scanned leading to other false positive reports

It looks like there are some reports in __alloc_skb. Please try the
attached patch.

Here is the result
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kml/ml4.txt


Thanks.

--
Catalin




Regards,
Michal

--
Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group
(http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)
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