[uml-devel] Re: problems with UML -- new data with memory debugging on

[Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>]

Jeff Dike wrote:
> cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com said:
> 
>>I turned on memory debugging, and got the following.  Line 1439 in
>>slab.c is 
> 
> 
> Excellent.  Can you add the following to hostfs_read_super (not a real patch -
> add that line by hand)?
> 
>  out_dput:
> 	dput(sb->s_root);
> +	return(NULL);
>  out_free:
> 	kfree(root_dir);
> 
> The dput is doing some cleanup for me that I wasn't aware of, including freeing
> stuff.

Looks like that cleaned it up for the minimal setup that was triggering 
the fault.

I'll test it with the full configuration and see how that goes...

Thanks,

Chris

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