Another slab size-32 leak 2.6.16-rc4-mm2

Linda Knippers linda.knippers at hp.com
Wed Mar 1 02:04:35 UTC 2006


>>> At this point, I'm trying to understand if there are additional to-do's
>>> beyond the memory leak patch submitted by Steve Grubb and ack'ed by me
>>> earlier in this thread.  If there are, please specify, and if not,
>>> please apply the memory leak patch and let's move on.  I'd like to hear
>>> Al's opinion on the matter, as the audit tree is his now and it's up to
>>> him whether or not to push on to Andrew.
> 
> 
> I'm not aware of anything additional needed. I haven't tested the code,
> and am not very familiar with it, so I can't definitely promise that it
> currently meets all the requirements, but that's what the testing process
> is for.

So the next steps are:
1) apply the memory leak patch to the lspp kernel
2) test that the requirements are (still) met
3) push the patch further along

Is that the right order or are we doing 1), 3) and then 2), fixing
after the fact if necessary?

-- ljk




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