linux-kernel - Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty

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Message-ID: <20090830171749.GA8642@mit.edu>
Date:	Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:17:49 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:04:17PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > The ext4 reports are real leaks and patch was posted here -
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/15/62. However, it hasn't been merged into
> > mainline yet (I cc'ed Aneesh).
> 
> The patch is part of ext4-patchqueue  http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git
> 
> Any plans to push the patches to linus tree soon ?

Yes, as soon as the next merge window opens.  The leak only shows up
when you mount and unmount a filesystem, which under normal
circumstances doesn't happen a huge number of times on most systems.
By the time it showed up it was late enough in the 2.6.31-rcX series
that I figured it was better to wait until the next merge window.  I
didn't consider it a high priority bug.

       	       	      	     	     	   - Ted
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