linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: clear cfg80211_inform

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Date:	Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:17:17 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: clear cfg80211_inform_bss() from kmemleak 
 reports

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:13 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> What I meant is it gobbles it up and spits another thing out. When it
> gobbles it up the routine then uses kref_put().
> 
> > Why can it not track this?
> 
> It probably can, just not sure if it follows kref_put(), I was under
> the impression here it doesn't and because of it we were getting false
> positives. Catalin, can you confirm?

Ah I'd think that if it can't track it then that's because we use a
pointer to the middle of the struct to keep track of it much of the
time.

johannes

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