linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak for MIPS

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:15:05 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Maxin John <maxin.john@...il.com>
Cc:	Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>,
	naveen yadav <yad.naveen@...il.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak for MIPS

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 20:36 +0100, Maxin John wrote:
> I have prepared the combined patch for kmemleak porting to MIPS. After
> applying the patch and enabling the kmemleak in Kernel, I can see one
> kernel memleak reported during booting itself:
...
> unreferenced object 0x8f90d000 (size 4096):
>   comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 815.000s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<80529644>] alloc_large_system_hash+0x2f8/0x410
>     [<805383b4>] udp_table_init+0x4c/0x158
>     [<805384dc>] udp_init+0x1c/0x94
>     [<8053889c>] inet_init+0x184/0x2a0
>     [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0
>     [<8051f348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174
>     [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18

If you for the kmemleak scan (via echo) a few times, do you get more
leaks? The udp_table_init() function looks like it could leak some
memory but I haven't seen it before. I'm not sure whether this is a
false positive or a real leak.
> 
> Please let me know your comments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

I think the last line should be more like:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>


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