Re: [PATCH] net: Surpress kmemleak messages on sysctl paths

Steven Rostedt [off-list ref] writes:

The network code allocates ctl_table_headers that are used for the life
of the kernel. These headers are registered and never unregistered. The
head pointer is allocated and not referenced, as it never needs to be
unregistered, and the kmemleak detector triggers these as false
positives:

The fix for this should already be merged into Linus's tree from the
net-next tree for 3.5.

Eric

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:41 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

Steven Rostedt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The network code allocates ctl_table_headers that are used for the life
of the kernel. These headers are registered and never unregistered. The
head pointer is allocated and not referenced, as it never needs to be
unregistered, and the kmemleak detector triggers these as false
positives:

The fix for this should already be merged into Linus's tree from the
net-next tree for 3.5.

Ah, I didn't look at net-next. I just looked at 3.4 and didn't see
anything. If that's the case, simply ignore :-)

-- Steve