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Re: [PATCH 1/6] wireless: Add memory usage debugging.

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On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 07:22 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > I'm not really sure this is worth it -- you found the bug with
> > kmemleak() after all. Having very specific things for all of this
> > doesn't really seem worth it.
> 
> kmemleak didn't show the bss leaking though, so I spent several days
> thinking ies pointers were being corrupted somehow.  I think the code
> is not that intrusive, and since drivers also take bss refs, the problems
> could come back in the future.

Fair enough, I'll think about it some more. I don't think drivers are
really that much of a problem though.

> I didn't actually audit the drivers since I am not using that hardware,
> by the way.

Right.

> I started porting some patches to wireless-next yesterday..think that
> would be a good enough tree to patch against?

Probably OK, I only have few patches right now. I also just posted two
patches to address parts of this problem though, can you review those
too?

johannes

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