linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] memory leak in dm

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Message-Id: <200710161415.13018.dl9pf@gmx.de>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:15:12 +0200
From:	Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@....de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] memory leak in dm

Am Dienstag 16 Oktober 2007 13:38:00 schrieb Kristof Provost:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing a serious memory leak whenever I use my /home partition.
> It's an encrypted partition using dm-crypt. Simply running
> 'stress -d 5' is enough to exhaust the memory in a few minutes.

Same setup here - I can confirm the leak. Happened here while compiling latest 
kernel while using the previous build. Over 1GB "vanished" :D ... Now i'm 
back to the default kernel.

I'll apply the patch now and report.

Greets
Jan-Simon

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