Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:58:18 +0200 | | From | Borislav Petkov <> | | Subject | Re: [3.1-rc6] kmalloc(64) leak from IDE |
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:38:08AM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:21:18AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:23:37PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > > > Yes, that seems to have made it stop complaining about the IDE path. > > > > Good, thanks for testing. It would be great if you left it running for > > a couple of days like this to see whether there aren't any other issues > > with the patch. I'll send it with a proper description to Dave soonish > > since this is a real bug. > > It has been up 22 hours now without breaking.
Good.
> I suppose you're worried about the old command being used after it > gets reused.
Nah, we clear the old command before reusing it and when the request is done, it gets freed, AFAICT, but...
> Would it help to bisect the regression to see how it used to work? > That would let us know how many stable kernels to patch, too.
backporting it to -stable is a good point. I'll add the proper tagging to the patch.
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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