Re: kmemleak for MIPS
From: Daniel Baluta <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-30 09:54:13
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unreferenced object 0x8f90d000 (size 4096): comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 815.000s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<80529644>] alloc_large_system_hash+0x2f8/0x410 [<805383b4>] udp_table_init+0x4c/0x158 [<805384dc>] udp_init+0x1c/0x94 [<8053889c>] inet_init+0x184/0x2a0 [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0 [<8051f348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174 [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18If you for the kmemleak scan (via echo) a few times, do you get more leaks? The udp_table_init() function looks like it could leak some memory but I haven't seen it before. I'm not sure whether this is a false positive or a real leak.
Looking again at udp_init_table it seem that a memory leak is possible. Could you post your .config and the full output of dmesg after booting. A situation where CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is 0, and table->mask < UDP_HTABLE_SIZE_MIN - 1 would lead to a memory leak. Furthermore, you can add some printks inside udp_init_table and check what is really happening there. ([1]) thanks, Daniel. [1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.38/net/ipv4/udp.c#L2125 thanks, Daniel. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>