RE: memory leak in call_usermodehelper()

[Srikumar Subramanian]

Basically, I am not intended to have my own syscall.

I am generating a report on all deleted file and directory. For that I
trapped sys_unlink() function and calling a external program using
call_usermodehelper(). Since sys_unlink() is called very frequently in my
case, memory leak caused by calling call_usermodehelper kills all the
process in the system.

Just to narrow down the problem, I introduced my own syscall.

-----Original Message-----
From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:13 AM
To: Srikumar Subramanian
Cc: 'Andrew Morton'; 'linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; Boopathi Veerappan
Subject: RE: memory leak in call_usermodehelper()

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 06:22, Srikumar Subramanian wrote:

>
> Is there any alternative to call_usermodehelper in kernel 2.4.20?
>
most of all don't implement your own syscalls!

> Hi,
> I am using 2.4.20-8 Redhat 9 kernel.
>

well clearly not quite since you're adding syscalls to it.
Also 2.4.20-8 isn't the current Red Hat Linux 9 kernel; 2.4.20-27.9 is.
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