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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.31-rc6, BTRFS] potential memory leaks...
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:05:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090814150515.GB28790@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d2220908140803g554ab931o58672a1b4c11e245@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:03:04PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> There is good chance that the BTRFS kmemleak reports using 2.6.31-rc6
> [1] are false-positives, due to the overwriting of the static pointers
> [2]. Does this ring true with anyone else?

If these were real leaks you'd see errors during rmmod.  They should be
false positives.

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-14 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-14 15:03 [2.6.31-rc6, BTRFS] potential memory leaks Daniel J Blueman
2009-08-14 15:05 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-08-14 16:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-16 12:55   ` Daniel J Blueman
2009-08-16 21:38     ` Catalin Marinas

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