linux-ext4 - Re: possible (ext4 related?) memory leak in kernel 2.6.26

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:50:31 -0300
From:	"Renato S. Yamane" <yamane@...mondcut.com.br>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Quentin Godfroy <godfroy@...pper.ens.fr>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible (ext4 related?) memory leak in kernel 2.6.26

Theodore Tso wrote:
> Quentin Godfroy wrote:
>> For the two fs the only inode which shows up is the inode 8 (this
>> seems to be the journal. According to 'stat <8>' in debugfs it looks
>> like the journal is 134Megs long. I don't remember exactly how I
>> created the fs, but i'm sure I did not specified the journal
>> size. Does it seem reasonable for a 6,6G fs?
>
> 134 Megs sounds wrong.  What does dumpe2fs -h say?  I'm guessing you
> didn't calculate it quite correctly.

I'm running 2.6.26.2 (ext3) and dumpe2fs show me:
Journal size: 128M

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe5d80ea3

Dispositivo Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         889     7139328   27  Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *         889        4780    31250000    7  HPFS ou NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3            4781        7212    19527480   83  Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4            7212       12161    39758040    5  Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5            7212        7274      498928+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda6            7274       12161    39259048+  83  Linux

Regards,
Renato
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html