From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756380Ab1K3ODl (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:03:41 -0500 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:47242 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751741Ab1K3ODQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:03:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4ED6378A.2030904@cwi.nl> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:02:50 +0000 From: "Wouter M. Koolen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111114 Icedove/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Catalin Marinas CC: "Wouter M. Koolen" , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: kmemleak: unreferenced object in copy_thread References: <4ED3CE60.2060901@cwi.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/30/2011 11:54 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > I can't yet tell whether it's a false positive or not. Did the X > server die? Is the process with pid 1415 still around? The leaked > object looks like the thread stack (8K) and it should have been > removed when the corresponding process was killed. > Hi Catalin, The process was MATLAB. It started swapping because I allocated too big an array. The X server, and all other running applications survived the kill. I have rebooted the machine since this happend, sorry. With kind regards, Wouter