linux-kernel - Re: Possible memory leak in net/wireless/scan.c

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Message-Id: <1247048686.4755.57.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:24:46 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in net/wireless/scan.c

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 09:46 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> Anyway, I run it from some ARM embedded systems at ~200MHz and 256MB of
> RAM to dual core x86 at 2GHz with 3GB of RAM. I also ran it on quemu in
> the past (but, well, in the embedded world I'm pretty used with
> emulators taking 10 min to boot the kernel).

:)

> But it can slow things down since it tracks every memory allocation and
> it needs to look up the pointer in an rb tree.

It was so slow I gave up after a while. But then my real purpose was
testing something, not waiting for kmemleak, so I guess I just didn't
wait long enough :)

johannes

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