linux-kernel - Re: kmemeleak BUG: lock held when returning to user space!

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Date:	Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:47:23 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: kmemeleak BUG: lock held when returning to user space!

Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by> wrote:
> kernel: [  149.507103] ================================================
> kernel: [  149.507113] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
> kernel: [  149.507119] ------------------------------------------------
> kernel: [  149.507127] cat/3279 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
> kernel: [  149.507135] 1 lock held by cat/3279:
> kernel: [  149.507141]  #0:  (scan_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c110707c>] kmemleak_open+0x4c/0x80
>
> problem is here:
> static int kmemleak_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)

It's been fixed in my kmemleak branch which I'll push to Linus:

http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=kmemleak

-- 
Catalin
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