linux-kernel - Re: kobject leak in next-20080829 (and mainline)

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:51:05 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: kobject leak in next-20080829 (and mainline)

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 09:45:22AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:43:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 08:42:46AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > 	size-32: 3511 kvasprintf+0x57/0x90
> > > 	size-64: 3059 kobject_create+0x1c/0x40
> > > 
> > > These two buddies increase after every "modprobe; rmmod" sequence.
> > 
> > Do they also do so in mainline?
> 
> Yep, same bug in mainline.

Not good.  Does 2.6.26 show this as well?

thanks,

greg k-h
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