Hello. I can see below message appears for 15 times in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak after processing /init inside initramfs. unreferenced object 0xdeadb5c8 (size 32): comm "insmod", pid 543, jiffies 4294674766 backtrace: [<c048a22c>] create_object+0x135/0x202 [<c048a31e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x25/0x49 [<c04865d9>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive+0x1c/0x22 [<c0486d33>] __kmalloc+0x6c/0xb9 [<c04f5675>] kvasprintf+0x2d/0x4a [<c04ef5af>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x50 [<c054bbd7>] dev_set_name+0x1a/0x1c [<e08dc1b7>] scsi_sysfs_device_initialize+0x8b/0xe4 [scsi_mod] [<e08d9bbf>] scsi_alloc_sdev+0x134/0x18f [scsi_mod] [<e08d9e7a>] scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x107/0xa98 [scsi_mod] [<e08da946>] __scsi_scan_target+0x70/0x4b1 [scsi_mod] [<e08dadbe>] scsi_scan_channel+0x37/0x60 [scsi_mod] [<e08dae9f>] scsi_scan_host_selected+0xb8/0xf1 [scsi_mod] [<e08daf2c>] do_scsi_scan_host+0x54/0x5d [scsi_mod] [<e08db2ef>] scsi_scan_host+0x14d/0x165 [scsi_mod] [<e0959771>] mptspi_probe+0x2cd/0x2f8 [mptspi] Environment is CentOS 5.3 on i686 . The content of /init is shown below. -- #!/bin/nash mount -t proc /proc /proc setquiet echo Mounting proc filesystem echo Mounting sysfs filesystem mount -t sysfs /sys /sys echo Creating /dev mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev mkdir /dev/pts mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts mkdir /dev/shm mkdir /dev/mapper echo Creating initial device nodes mknod /dev/null c 1 3 mknod /dev/zero c 1 5 mknod /dev/systty c 4 0 mknod /dev/tty c 5 0 mknod /dev/console c 5 1 mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2 mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135 mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0 mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1 mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2 mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3 mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4 mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5 mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6 mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7 mknod /dev/tty8 c 4 8 mknod /dev/tty9 c 4 9 mknod /dev/tty10 c 4 10 mknod /dev/tty11 c 4 11 mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12 mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 echo Setting up hotplug. hotplug echo Creating block device nodes. mkblkdevs echo "Loading jbd.ko module" insmod /lib/jbd.ko echo "Loading ext3.ko module" insmod /lib/ext3.ko echo "Loading scsi_mod.ko module" insmod /lib/scsi_mod.ko echo "Loading sd_mod.ko module" insmod /lib/sd_mod.ko echo "Loading scsi_transport_spi.ko module" insmod /lib/scsi_transport_spi.ko echo "Loading mptbase.ko module" insmod /lib/mptbase.ko echo "Loading mptscsih.ko module" insmod /lib/mptscsih.ko echo "Loading mptspi.ko module" insmod /lib/mptspi.ko echo Waiting for driver initialization. stabilized --hash --interval 1000 /proc/scsi/scsi mkblkdevs echo Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices echo Creating root device. mkrootdev -t ext3 -o noatime,nodiratime,ro sda1 echo Mounting root filesystem. mount /sysroot echo Setting up other filesystems. setuproot echo Switching to new root and running init. switchroot -- This is a different one from the one solved by applying http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/21/384 . Regards. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html