Can this patch fix your leak? diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c index c447838..b0d3984 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c @@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ out_device_destroy: scsi_device_set_state(sdev, SDEV_DEL); transport_destroy_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev); put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev); + put_device(&sdev->sdev_dev); out: if (display_failure_msg) printk(ALLOC_FAILURE_MSG, __func__); @@ -958,6 +959,7 @@ static inline void scsi_destroy_sdev(struct scsi_device *sdev) sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy(sdev); transport_destroy_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev); put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev); + put_device(&sdev->sdev_dev); } #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- 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