On 06/26/2013 04:51 AM, channing wrote:
In tty_buffer_find(), it scans all tty buffers in free buffer queue, if it finds matched one, tty->buf.free will point to matched one's next buffer, so tty buffers that ahead of matched one are removed from free queue, they will never be used but they are not released, then memory leak happen.
Actually, the whole scan loop is wrong: only tty buffers of size 256 are added to the free list. So this can't leak because a buffer will never be found mid-list. Greg has a patch series from me that reduces this but it's not yet in next. Regards, Peter Hurley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
