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From: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Fix the memory leak in acpi_evaluate_integer()
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:15:24 +0200
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Hi Catalin,

On 07/06/06, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>
> A leak can happen because of the early returns from this function
> (discovered by kmemleak).
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> ---

all
orphan pointer 0xf7e97654 (size 40):
  c0151044: <kmem_cache_alloc>
  c01e8656: <acpi_os_acquire_object>
  c01fe087: <acpi_ut_allocate_object_desc_dbg>
  c01fdf1b: <acpi_ut_create_internal_object_dbg>
  c01ec2a0: <acpi_ev_execute_reg_method>
  c01ec898: <acpi_ev_reg_run>
  c01f7453: <acpi_ns_walk_namespace>
  c01ec859: <acpi_ev_execute_reg_methods>

are gone. But now I get a lot of

orphan pointer 0xf7ea1654 (size 40):
  c015208c: <kmem_cache_alloc>
  c01eb6c2: <acpi_os_acquire_object>
  c02010f7: <acpi_ut_allocate_object_desc_dbg>
  c0200f8b: <acpi_ut_create_internal_object_dbg>
  c01ef310: <acpi_ev_execute_reg_method>
  c01ef908: <acpi_ev_reg_run>
  c01fa4c3: <acpi_ns_walk_namespace>
  c01ef8c9: <acpi_ev_execute_reg_methods>
  c01ef293: <acpi_ev_initialize_op_regions>
  c02000d4: <acpi_initialize_objects>
  c03a0a37: <acpi_bus_init>
  c03a0ada: <acpi_init>
  c038e871: <do_initcalls>
  c038e91e: <do_basic_setup>
  c0100367: <init>

Regards,
Michal

-- 
Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group
(http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)