Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760307AbYFEBGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:06:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752892AbYFEBGk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:06:40 -0400 Received: from sous-sol.org ([216.99.217.87]:37073 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751742AbYFEBGj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:06:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:06:26 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Jeff Dike Cc: Thorsten Knabe , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25.4 task_struct leak Message-ID: <20080605010626.GB30402@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <483EC624.90503@thorsten-knabe.de> <20080601213134.GJ4018@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20080602010546.GA8578@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <484719C7.2020502@thorsten-knabe.de> <20080605004925.GA15461@c2.user-mode-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080605004925.GA15461@c2.user-mode-linux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 609 Lines: 13 * Jeff Dike (jdike@addtoit.com) wrote: > Yes, it does. I don't see the flags causing a leak, though. What > might be more likely (although I really have no idea) is ptrace. Yeah, ptrace was my guess as well, and I was hoping you'd have an idea ;-) > Possibly a reference is held when it should have been dropped. This > might also show up with strace or gdb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/