[yocto] linux-yocto: memory leak in krogoth 4.1.28 kernel

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 14:37:42 PDT 2016


On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Chris Sykes
<chris at newforest-technology.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the end of last week I hit a known kernel memory leak in the linux-yocto
> 4.1 branch, as delivered in 2.1 / krogoth.  It rather quickly results in an
> OOM kernel panic on my platform (x86, 1G RAM).
>
> The patch below fixed the problem for me:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg138760.html
>
> It's already queued for 4.1.29, but thought I'd mention it here for the
> benefit of the list. Perhaps it might be worth expediting a fix for 2.1?
>
> I also raised bugzilla 10014 - I hope this was the right thing to do...

Thanks for report, you did the right thing. Our Kernel maintainer will
take care of it.

>
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