Re: struct pid memory leak

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Sun Jan 24 2016 - 16:11:37 EST


On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 06:50:11PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:11:45AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> >> It doesn't report this on 3.10.
>> >
>> > To be more precise, kmemleak reports the issue on 3.13 and not on 3.12.
>> > I'm not sure if it's reliable enough to run a bisect though.
>> >
>> > Willy
>> >
>>
>> I have the leak on linux-3.11.
>>
>> I believe even linux-3.3 gets the leak, although I had to wait about
>> one hour to be confident the leak was there.
>
> OK so I'm stopping my bisect. It's possible it's affected with some option
> which changed along the various "make oldconfig" at each step. Thanks for
> letting me know.

Bug was added in 2.6.38 . I am testing a fix and will send it today.