From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.31-rc6, BTRFS] potential memory leaks...
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:35:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tnxab228ibo.fsf@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d2220908140803g554ab931o58672a1b4c11e245@mail.gmail.com> (Daniel J. Blueman's message of "Fri\, 14 Aug 2009 16\:03\:04 +0100")
Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> 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 you do a few echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak, do they
disappear?
The static pointers are scanned by kmemleak, unless they are in the
.data.init section (which is removed anyway).
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 16:35 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
2009-08-14 16:35 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2009-08-16 12:55 ` Daniel J Blueman
2009-08-16 21:38 ` Catalin Marinas
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