Exact leak location in KMemleak Output

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 00:05:28 EST 2010


Hi...

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 04:44, Sengottuvelan S
<sengottuvelan.s at gmail.com> wrote:
>   comm "insmod", pid 1559, jiffies 4294961804 (age 229.610s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     fa 3e 00 00 00 00 00 00 92 5a 00 00 00 00 00 00  .>.......Z......
>     0a 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 3c 38 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........<8......
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff8156eb1d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x2d/0x60
>     [<ffffffff81152469>] __vmalloc_node+0xc9/0xe0
>     [<ffffffff8115280c>] vmalloc+0x2c/0x30
>     [<ffffffffa0099047>] 0xffffffffa0099047
>     [<ffffffffa009906c>] 0xffffffffa009906c
>     [<ffffffff8100204c>] do_one_initcall+0x3c/0x1a0
>     [<ffffffff810cea1b>] sys_init_module+0xbb/0x200
>     [<ffffffff81041072>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Fairly likely, it's either:
a. Stack frame is corrupted
or
b. the area isn't so near of any recorded symbol

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Mulyadi Santosa
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