Re: 2.6.37-rc1 kmemleak warnings when saving a file over cifs.

[Andrew Hendry]

The server is a qnap NAS, running linux 2.6.24

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Have just noticed these in the past few days, now running 2.6.37-rc1+
>> Seems to be 1 logged per file save when using a text file with gedit over cifs.
>
> Can you tell the called function in cifs_setattr_unix vs. cifs_setattr_nounix
> (the former will usually be called when the server is Samba, the latter
> when the server is Windows or NetApp).  What is the server type?
>
>> unreferenced object 0xffff88022ee08b40 (size 32):
>>  comm "gedit", pid 2524, jiffies 4300160388 (age 2633.655s)
>>  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>>    5c 2e 67 6f 75 74 70 75 74 73 74 72 65 61 6d 2d  \.goutputstream-
>>    35 42 41 53 4c 56 00 de 09 00 00 00 2c 26 78 ee  5BASLV......,&x.
>>  backtrace:
>>    [<ffffffff81504a4d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x2d/0x60
>>    [<ffffffff81136e13>] __kmalloc+0xe3/0x1d0
>>    [<ffffffffa0313db0>] build_path_from_dentry+0xf0/0x230 [cifs]
>>    [<ffffffffa031ae1e>] cifs_setattr+0x9e/0x770 [cifs]
>>    [<ffffffff8115fe90>] notify_change+0x170/0x2e0
>>    [<ffffffff81145ceb>] sys_fchmod+0x10b/0x140
>>    [<ffffffff8100c172>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> Didn't see anything obvious in cifs_setattr_unix on the kmalloc/kfree
> of full_path,
> but it will help when we know which path we are in.  We did make some recent
> changes in 2.6.37 in file allocation.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
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