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

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Message-ID: <20081006175502.GA12937@mit.edu>
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:55:02 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	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

Here are updates to the two patches I sent you.  The first fixes some
printk labels and requires that the debugging dump ioctl be triggered
by root; the second fixes the think-o that Eric pointed out earlier
this morning.

						- Ted

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