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

[Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>]

Hi Ingo,

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i dont know - i feel uneasy about the 'any pointer' method - it has a 
> high potential for false negatives, especially for structures that 
> contain strings (or other random data), etc.

Is that a problem in practice?  Structures that contain data are usually 
allocated from the slab.  There needs to be a link to that struct from the 
gc roots to get a false negative.  Or am I missing something here?

				Pekka
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