netdev - Re: [PATCH net] rhashtable: fix a memory leak in alloc_bucket

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:25:06 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rhashtable: fix a memory leak in alloc_bucket_locks()

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:40 AM, CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com> wrote:
> After applied to this patch and ran the reproducer (compiling gcc), had
> no bucket_table_alloc in kmemleak report anymore. Hence,
>
> Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
>
> Funny enough, it now gave me this,
>
> [ 3406.807461] kmemleak: 1353 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

Those logs look incomprehensible. This one looks more like a kmemleak
bug than anything else.

            Linus