From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751104Ab1IWRiL (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:38:11 -0400 Received: from peace.netnation.com ([204.174.223.2]:59914 "EHLO peace.netnation.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826Ab1IWRiJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:38:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:38:08 -0700 From: Simon Kirby To: Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [3.1-rc6] kmalloc(64) leak from IDE Message-ID: <20110923173808.GB26481@hostway.ca> References: <20110922072643.GA27232@hostway.ca> <20110922084811.GC17640@liondog.tnic> <20110922202337.GB32661@hostway.ca> <20110923072118.GA13293@liondog.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110923072118.GA13293@liondog.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:21:18AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:23:37PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > > Yes, that seems to have made it stop complaining about the IDE path. > > Good, thanks for testing. It would be great if you left it running for > a couple of days like this to see whether there aren't any other issues > with the patch. I'll send it with a proper description to Dave soonish > since this is a real bug. It has been up 22 hours now without breaking. I suppose you're worried about the old command being used after it gets reused. Would it help to bisect the regression to see how it used to work? That would let us know how many stable kernels to patch, too. Simon-