Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6.31-rc6, BTRFS] potential memory leaks... | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Date | Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:35:07 +0100 |
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Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> wrote: > There is good chance that the BTRFS kmemleak reports using 2.6.31-rc6 > [1] are false-positives, due to the overwriting of the static pointers > [2]. Does this ring true with anyone else?
If you do a few echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak, do they disappear?
The static pointers are scanned by kmemleak, unless they are in the .data.init section (which is removed anyway).
-- Catalin
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