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On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 17:53 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:

> > However, that's a corner case, I don't think you ran into it. Since you
> > also didn't note any warnings, we can also discount a few cases that
> > would be code bugs and would leak.
> >
> > I wonder if this is related to the first warning? The "new" object in
> > the first block would typically take ownership of the "ies" object.
> 
> Although I do not get any warnings, your patch and mine have made the kmemleak 
> scan now come up clean. I will continue testing and let you know.

Ok. I guess I'll apply my patch, and we can see about yours later (since
it's only a false positive, while mine actually fixes a potential leak).

Were you reconfiguring your AP's SSID by any chance?

johannes

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