Re: kmemeleak BUG: lock held when returning to user space!

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Thu Jul 09 2009 - 06:47:53 EST


Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> kernel: [ 149.507103] ================================================
> kernel: [ 149.507113] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
> kernel: [ 149.507119] ------------------------------------------------
> kernel: [ 149.507127] cat/3279 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
> kernel: [ 149.507135] 1 lock held by cat/3279:
> kernel: [ 149.507141] #0: (scan_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c110707c>] kmemleak_open+0x4c/0x80
>
> problem is here:
> static int kmemleak_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)

It's been fixed in my kmemleak branch which I'll push to Linus:

http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=kmemleak

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Catalin
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