linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix two potential mem leaks in MPT Fusion (mpt

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Message-ID: <9a8748490708021626s58f0f7cew54932e523800e982@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:26:42 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix two potential mem leaks in MPT Fusion (mpt_attach())

On 03/08/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:10:02 +0200
> "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > > > So, where do we go from here?
> > >
> > > Where I said ;) Add a new __GFP_ flag which suppresses the warning, add
> > > that flag to known-to-be-OK callsites, such as mempool_alloc().
> > >
> > Ok, I'll try to play around with this some more, try to filter out
> > false positives and see what I'm left with (if anything - I'm pretty
> > limited hardware-wise, so I can only test a small subset of drivers,
> > archs etc) - I'll keep you informed, but expect a few days to pass
> > before I have any news...
>
> Make it a once-off thing for now, so the warning will disable itself after
> it has triggered once.  That will prevent the debug feature from making
> anyone's kernel unusable.
>
Ok, I'll do that :-)

Just be a little patient. I'm doing this in my spare time and I do
have a real job/life to attend to, so I'll be playing with this in the
little free time I have over the next couple of days.  I'll get
something done, but don't expect it until a few days have passed :-)

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