Re: [2.6.31-rc6, BTRFS] potential memory leaks...

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Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is good chance that the BTRFS kmemleak reports using 2.6.31-rc6
> [1] are false-positives, due to the overwriting of the static pointers
> [2]. Does this ring true with anyone else?

If you do a few echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak, do they
disappear?

The static pointers are scanned by kmemleak, unless they are in the
.data.init section (which is removed anyway).

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