linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak: unreferenced object in copy

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Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:02:50 +0000
From:	"Wouter M. Koolen" <W.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@....nl>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
CC:	"Wouter M. Koolen" <W.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@....nl>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak: unreferenced object in copy_thread

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
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