linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for April 22: kmemleak: unreferenced object

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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:49:32 +0200
From:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>
To:	catalin.marinas@....com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for April 22: kmemleak: unreferenced object

shortly after booting next-20090422 on an ep9301, kmemleak complains
about an unreferenced object:

kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xc5408610 (size 5):
  comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294937323
  backtrace:
    [<c00267e0>] save_stack_trace+0x24/0x28
    [<c00a3db4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x144/0x2cc
    [<c00a211c>] __kmalloc_node+0x1bc/0x1d4
    [<c008d730>] kstrdup+0x3c/0x54
    [<c00bedec>] alloc_vfsmnt+0x9c/0x148
    [<c00a7c10>] vfs_kern_mount+0x34/0xa8
    [<c00a7ca4>] kern_mount_data+0x20/0x24
    [<c0013428>] bdev_cache_init+0x54/0xa0
    [<c0012c74>] vfs_caches_init+0x104/0x140
    [<c0008980>] start_kernel+0x244/0x2b8
    [<00008034>] 0x8034
    [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

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