----- Original Message ----- > On 11/02/11 01:25, NeilBrown wrote: > > Thanks Jes. > > I've applied all of these - using the second version of patch 19. > > > > I'm not normally very fussed about freeing and closing things > > shortly before > > the process is going to exit anyway, but I'm not against it. And > > some of > > your patches were for other leaks. > > Hi Neil, > > I totally agree here. The main reason for applying those fixes is to > reduce the S/N ratio from the checking tools. It has the advantage that if mdadm is ever converted to run any of these routines from a long standing operation (say monitor mode decides to start doing new things), then we aren't tasked with fixing up 1001 little details that could have been right in the first place ;-) -- Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD http://people.redhat.com/dledford -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html