Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty

Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-30T17:29:22Z

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Theodore Tso<tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:04:17PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> > The ext4 reports are real leaks and patch was posted here -
>> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/15/62. However, it hasn't been merged into
>> > mainline yet (I cc'ed Aneesh).
>>
>> The patch is part of ext4-patchqueue  http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git
>>
>> Any plans to push the patches to linus tree soon ?
>
> Yes, as soon as the next merge window opens.  The leak only shows up
> when you mount and unmount a filesystem, which under normal
> circumstances doesn't happen a huge number of times on most systems.
> By the time it showed up it was late enough in the 2.6.31-rcX series
> that I figured it was better to wait until the next merge window.  I
> didn't consider it a high priority bug.

That's odd I run into this kmemleak with a single bootup, no manual remounts.

Luis