From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Van Assche Subject: v4.4-rc3 ext4 memory leak Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 14:21:31 -0800 Message-ID: <5660C06B.4010003@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Theodore Ts'o , Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from mail-bn1on0093.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.56.110.93]:43968 "EHLO na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751037AbbLCWgi (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2015 17:36:38 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, Running xfstests on top of an ext4 filesystem causes kmemleak to report the following memory leak multiple times: unreferenced object 0xffff880408709730 (size 96): comm "fsstress", pid 35588, jiffies 4295006079 (age 11865.680s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmemleak_alloc+0x7a/0xc0 [] __kmalloc+0xde/0x140 [] ext4_find_extent+0x26e/0x310 [ext4] [] ext4_insert_range+0x255/0x3c0 [ext4] [] ext4_fallocate+0x1f1/0x210 [ext4] [] vfs_fallocate+0x156/0x1e0 [] SyS_fallocate+0x4e/0x80 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f [] 0xffffffffffffffff Bart.