linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: Surpress kmemleak messages on sysctl paths

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Message-ID: <878vgk1do2.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 May 2012 08:41:17 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, tixxdz@...ndz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Surpress kmemleak messages on sysctl paths

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> writes:

> The network code allocates ctl_table_headers that are used for the life
> of the kernel. These headers are registered and never unregistered. The
> head pointer is allocated and not referenced, as it never needs to be
> unregistered, and the kmemleak detector triggers these as false
> positives:

The fix for this should already be merged into Linus's tree from the
net-next tree for 3.5.

Eric
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