Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Memory leak in 2.4.27 kernel, using mmap raw packet sockets | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:43:58 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2004-10-19 at 15:35, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > That isnt sufficient. Consider anything else taking a reference to the > > page and the refcount going negative. > > You mean not going negative? The problem here as I understand here is > we dont release the count if the PageReserved is set, but we should.
Drivers like the OSS audio drivers move page between Reserved and unreserved. The count can thus be corrupted.
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