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

From: Chris Mason
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009 - 11:05:30 EST


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:03:04PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman 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 these were real leaks you'd see errors during rmmod. They should be
false positives.

-chris
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