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DateSat, 19 Aug 2006 11:58:41 +0100
From"Catalin Marinas" <>
SubjectPossible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c
Hi Shailabh,

Michal was running some kmemleak tests and there are about 20 orphan
pointers reported in delayacct.c. The allocation backtrace is:

orphan pointer 0xf548fde0 (size 76):
  c0174674: <kmem_cache_zalloc>
  c01591ee: <__delayacct_tsk_init>
  c0127e06: <copy_process>
  c0128cd2: <do_fork>
  c0104d39: <sys_clone>

I'm not sure whether the leak occurs but there might be a path where
task_struct is freed and the task->delays pointer is lost. Could you
please have a look at this? Thanks.

-- 
Catalin
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