Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:20:56 +0100 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: BUG: isofs broken (2.2 and 2.4) |
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On Nov 17, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > memory leak > > Aha. Must be a missing kfree(). > Does this help? > > --- namei.c~ Fri Nov 17 00:48:37 2000 > +++ namei.c Fri Nov 17 21:59:49 2000 > @@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ > bh = NULL; > break; > } > + if (cpnt) > + kfree(cpnt); > } > if (page) > free_page((unsigned long) page); > > Andries
this seems to make things much worse: starting with ~90M free memory "du" again started leaking (or maybe just using memory?) down to ~80M free memory when the system suddently locked up completely, no console switch was possible anymore (but Sysrq-B did reboot).
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