Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: clear cfg80211_inform_bss() from kmemleak reports | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:17:17 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:13 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> What I meant is it gobbles it up and spits another thing out. When it > gobbles it up the routine then uses kref_put(). > > > Why can it not track this? > > It probably can, just not sure if it follows kref_put(), I was under > the impression here it doesn't and because of it we were getting false > positives. Catalin, can you confirm?
Ah I'd think that if it can't track it then that's because we use a pointer to the middle of the struct to keep track of it much of the time.
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