Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 7/8] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

Hi!

> From: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
> 
> There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they
> are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them.

> @@ -1323,6 +1323,7 @@ legacy_init_iomem_resources(struct resou
>  		if (e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size > 0x100000000ULL)
>  			continue;
>  		res = kzalloc(sizeof(struct resource), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		memleak_debug_not_leak(res);

I'd suggest some shorter/more generic name.

	not_freed(res); ?

	alloc_forever(res); ?

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