Re: [PATCH] net: Surpress kmemleak messages on sysctl paths

[ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)]

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The network code allocates ctl_table_headers that are used for the life
> of the kernel. These headers are registered and never unregistered. The
> head pointer is allocated and not referenced, as it never needs to be
> unregistered, and the kmemleak detector triggers these as false
> positives:

The fix for this should already be merged into Linus's tree from the
net-next tree for 3.5.

Eric
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