Re: [PATCH] net: Surpress kmemleak messages on sysctl paths

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:41 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > The network code allocates ctl_table_headers that are used for the life
> > of the kernel. These headers are registered and never unregistered. The
> > head pointer is allocated and not referenced, as it never needs to be
> > unregistered, and the kmemleak detector triggers these as false
> > positives:
> 
> The fix for this should already be merged into Linus's tree from the
> net-next tree for 3.5.

Ah, I didn't look at net-next. I just looked at 3.4 and didn't see
anything. If that's the case, simply ignore :-)

-- Steve


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