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Message-ID: <20090612112222.6a8138dd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:22:22 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak via tty_ldisc_try_get

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:21:48 +0100
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> I noticed you pushed some changes to drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c recently.
> I now get about 12 kmemleak reports like below (on an ARM platform):

Thanks I'll review that next week. Chances are we've sprung a real leak
somewhere as I updated the allocation logic for ldiscs.
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