From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Memory leaks in cfg80211 and mac80211
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:50:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362657018.8694.31.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5137D6F8.4050007@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20130307_005334_931364_1B9BDD2F)
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 17:53 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > However, that's a corner case, I don't think you ran into it. Since you
> > also didn't note any warnings, we can also discount a few cases that
> > would be code bugs and would leak.
> >
> > I wonder if this is related to the first warning? The "new" object in
> > the first block would typically take ownership of the "ies" object.
>
> Although I do not get any warnings, your patch and mine have made the kmemleak
> scan now come up clean. I will continue testing and let you know.
Ok. I guess I'll apply my patch, and we can see about yours later (since
it's only a false positive, while mine actually fixes a potential leak).
Were you reconfiguring your AP's SSID by any chance?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-07 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-05 21:08 Memory leaks in cfg80211 and mac80211 Larry Finger
2013-03-06 9:31 ` Johannes Berg
2013-03-06 16:17 ` Larry Finger
2013-03-06 23:53 ` Larry Finger
2013-03-07 11:50 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-03-07 16:00 ` Larry Finger
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