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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:20:56 +0100
From: Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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Subject: Re: BUG: isofs broken (2.2 and 2.4)
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On Nov 17, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> > memory leak
> 
> Aha. Must be a missing kfree().
> Does this help?
> 
> --- namei.c~    Fri Nov 17 00:48:37 2000
> +++ namei.c     Fri Nov 17 21:59:49 2000
> @@ -197,6 +197,8 @@
>                         bh = NULL;
>                         break;
>                 }
> +               if (cpnt)
> +                       kfree(cpnt);
>         }
>         if (page)
>                 free_page((unsigned long) page);
> 
> Andries

this seems to make things much worse:  starting with ~90M free memory
"du" again started leaking (or maybe just using memory?) down to ~80M free
memory when the system suddently locked up completely, no console switch
was possible anymore (but Sysrq-B did reboot).



Harald
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