Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6 7/9] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

Hi Catalin,

On 6/11/06, Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> wrote:

There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they
are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them.


Can we fix this by looking for pointers to anywhere in the allocated
memory block instead of just looking for the start?

                                                    Pekka
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