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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: reference the ipv4 sysctl table header
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:51:32 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:32:20 -0400

> I just started using kmemleak and notice that it reports false positives
> for several __init functions that call register_sysctl_paths(). The fix
> you want is:
> 
> {
> 	sturct ctl_table_header *head;
> 
> 	head = register_sysctl_paths(ipv4_path, ipv4_skeleton);
> 	BUG_ON(!head);
> 	kmemleak_ignore(head);
> 
> 
> No need to waste a pointer just to keep the reference around for
> kmemleak.

That looks a lot saner than the other suggestions, indeed.