Re: Possible memory leak via inotify_add_watch

[Eric Paris]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:03 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 22:09 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 23:03 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > Hi Eric,
> > > 
> > > I'm getting a few kmemleak reports like the one below (it may as well
> > > be just a false positive). All of these allocations happened during
> > > udevd.
> > 
> > Any chance you could give this a shot and see if it fixes it up for you?
> 
> I'll give it a try tonight as it only shows on my home machine. But it
> doesn't apply cleanly on 2.6.31-rc2, there is a big hunk in
> inotify_update_watch() which fails to apply. Are there other additional
> patches needed?

http://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-linus

Has 3 patches on top.  I believe only #2 is needed for the memory leak.

-Eric

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