Re: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc2-bk15] sysfs_dir_close memory leak

From: Chris Wright
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 00:20:50 EST


* Adam J. Richter (adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> sysfs_dir_close did not free the "cursor" sysfs_dirent
> used for keeping track of position in the list of sysfs_dirent nodes.
> Consequently, doing a "find /sys" would leak a sysfs_dirent for
> each of the 1140 directories in my /sys tree, or about 36kB
> each time.

Yeah, I noticed this as well. Why the BUGON()?

thanks,
-chris
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