Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.9

On 18/08/06, Michal Piotrowski <[email protected]> wrote:

I just added your "Fix memory leak in vc_resize/vc_allocate" patch to
my series file.

orphan pointer 0xc6110000 (size 12288):
  c017480e: <__kmalloc>
  c024dda4: <vc_resize>
  c020ed9c: <fbcon_startup>
  c0251028: <register_con_driver>
  c02511e0: <take_over_console>
  c020e21e: <fbcon_takeover>
  c0212b08: <fbcon_fb_registered>
  c0212ce1: <fbcon_event_notify>
orphan pointer 0xf55b0000 (size 8208):
  c017480e: <__kmalloc>
  c0211bb8: <fbcon_set_font>
  c0251b17: <con_font_set>
  c0251c7b: <con_font_op>
  c0249a97: <vt_ioctl>
  c024432e: <tty_ioctl>
  c0189fd1: <do_ioctl>
  c018a269: <vfs_ioctl>

The second one is probably a false positive as the stored pointer is
different from the one returned by kmalloc (there is some padding).
I'll add it to the kmemleak-false-positives patch.

The first one might be a real leak. Anotonino, any idea about this?

Thanks.

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