On 2013/4/25 18:05, Anurup m wrote: > Hi All, > > There is a kernel memory leak observed when the proc file > /proc/fs/fscache/stats is read. > The reason is that in fscache_stats_open, single_open is called and > respective release function is not called during release. > Hence fix with correct release function - single_release. The patch is as > below >
The fix is obviously corect, but the patch is mangled so you should configure your email client properly. Read Documention/email-clients.txt. And when you've done that, remember Cc maintainers when you resend this patch, i.e. David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> and Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> in this case. > diff -uprN -X linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff > linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c > --- linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-22 > 03:08:45.000000000 +0530 > +++ linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-24 23:03:31.531296160 > +0530 > @@ -287,5 +287,5 @@ const struct file_operations fscache_sta > .open = fscache_stats_open, > .read = seq_read, > .llseek = seq_lseek, > - .release = seq_release, > + .release = single_release, Look the tab was replaced with spaces. -- 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/
