From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758654Ab2EVOlc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2012 10:41:32 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:50470 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751964Ab2EVOla (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2012 10:41:30 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Steven Rostedt Cc: David Miller , LKML , netdev@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, tixxdz@opendz.org References: <1337647392.13348.14.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:41:17 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1337647392.13348.14.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (Steven Rostedt's message of "Mon, 21 May 2012 20:43:12 -0400") Message-ID: <878vgk1do2.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=208.38.5.102;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+pNZ6QDF1OptdR1sdPUAfcpU9cNpwP0zA= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 208.38.5.102 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP TVD_RCVD_IP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0002] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa03 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa03 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Steven Rostedt X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Surpress kmemleak messages on sysctl paths X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:31:04 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steven Rostedt writes: > The network code allocates ctl_table_headers that are used for the life > of the kernel. These headers are registered and never unregistered. The > head pointer is allocated and not referenced, as it never needs to be > unregistered, and the kmemleak detector triggers these as false > positives: The fix for this should already be merged into Linus's tree from the net-next tree for 3.5. Eric