linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] fs/proc: Move kfree outside pde_unload

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Message-ID: <5162E36F.5020305@sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:34:07 -0500
From:	Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] fs/proc: Move kfree outside pde_unload_lock

On 04/05/2013 04:00 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 03:56:17PM -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
>
>> That didn't produce anything.  I'll run some bisections over the
>> weekend and see what I can sort out.
> *Ugh*
>
> I'd try to build with DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and slapped printks on the entry
> and exit from close_pdeo().  If that doesn't show anything interesting,
> it's probably unrelated to procfs...
My bisection pointed me to this commit:  e41efbf13c15
At this point I am assuming my issue is unrelated to procfs.


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