Re: 2.6.16-mm1 leaks in dvb playback (found)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 20:26:22 EST


On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:28:21PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:11:31 +0100
>
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 23:58:30 +0100 (+0100), adrian wrote:
> > > What I thought was just one patch was actually two and it was the
> > > other patch causing the problem - "Do not lose accepted socket when
> > > -ENFILE/-EMFILE".
> >
> > Hmm - it looks like it was meant to be reverted in 2.6.16-rc1-mm4,5 FWIW.
>
> So is the current version in Linus's tree causing this problem?

I don't know if it's this patch, but I definitely see a socket
leak here with linus tree at least since -git8. It unfortunately takes a day
or two to really trigger, so binary search would be difficult.

-Andi
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