Bug 9496

Summary:	kobject ->k_name memory leak
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjwysocki)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	adobriyan, greg
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	commit ce2c9cb0259acd2aed184499ebe41ab00da13b25	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	9243

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-12-03 13:42:02 UTC

Subject         : kobject ->k_name memory leak
Submitter       : Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/3/20
Handled-By      : Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>

Caused by:

commit ce2c9cb0259acd2aed184499ebe41ab00da13b25
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date:   Wed Sep 12 15:06:57 2007 -0700

    kobject: remove the static array for the name

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ce2c9cb0259acd2aed184499ebe41ab00da13b25

Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-12-11 16:13:00 UTC

Any progress here?

Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2007-12-14 13:52:21 UTC

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:13:00PM -0800, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> Any progress here?

This isn't going to be a "simple" fix at all, and is something for
2.6.25.  I suggest that we just accept the tiny memory leak for module
unload for 2.6.24, unless people really object.

thanks,

greg k-h

Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-01-01 23:03:55 UTC

Now fixed in Linus's tree, turned out to be easier than anticipated....

Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-01-01 23:08:33 UTC

now fixed.

Comment 5 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-01-02 04:30:28 UTC

Can you provide the commit name, please?

Comment 6 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-01-07 07:56:21 UTC

d172f4ef31bec924c6ebcb242c9d7d290811e1e5 fixed the problem.