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Re: [ath9k-devel] Possible memory leak in ath9k monitor mode injection

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 20:18 +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:
>>
>>> # echo scan >/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak ; cat
>>> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>>> kmemleak: 197 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
>>> unreferenced object 0xc5cfea80 (size 192):
>>>   comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 14191
>>>   backtrace:
>>>     [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
>>
>> that's kinda useless, can you run
>
> But if you insist on using kmemleak, try clearing the list
>
> echo clear > kmemleak
>
> Then scan
>
> echo scan > kmemleak
>
> then run your frame injection tests and then re-run scan.
>
> echo scan > kmemleak
>
> Then paste the output here.

You need a kernel with debugging too to get a good valuable trace.

  Luis
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