Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12768] New: usb_alloc_urb() leaks memory together with uvcvideo driver

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:15:35 +0100 Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
>> <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:57:20 -0800
>> > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> > In the output of /proc/slab_allocators the number of blocks allocated by
>> >> > usb_alloc_urb() increases, however, the xawtv is no longer running:
>> >> >
>> >> > size-2048: 18 usb_alloc_dev+0x1d/0x212 [usbcore]
>> >> > size-2048: 2280 usb_alloc_urb+0xc/0x2b [usbcore]
>> >> > size-1024: 100 usb_alloc_urb+0xc/0x2b [usbcore]
>> >> > size-128: 10 usb_alloc_urb+0xc/0x2b [usbcore]
>> >> >
>> >> > Each time xawtv is started and stopped the value increases at the
>> >> > usb_alloc_urb().
>> >> >
>> >> > Expected result: the same memory usage is reached again after xawtv exited.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I assume this is a v4l bug and not a USB core bug?
>> >
>> > I guess this is a v4l bug. We've found several memory leaks on em28xx driver,
>> > fixed at the development -git:
>> >
>> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/devel.git
>> >
>> > I'll do some tests again with the latest em28xx driver to double check if it is
>> > there any other memory leak. If not, then we could replicate the same approach
>> > into uvcvideo.
>> >
>>
>> haha you never even had a look at the issue itself.
>
> What a perfectly useless comment.
>

not more or less useless than the one before

http://mcentral.de/pipermail/em28xx/2009-February/002446.html

I followed the other em28xx work too and there has not been anything
which addressed that issue.

Markus
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