Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] genirq: proc: fix a procfs entry leak | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:12:41 +0200 |
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On Mon, Aug 14 2023 at 11:36, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
Please read and follow the guidelines of the tip tree:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-tip.html
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> > > When removing the proc entry for a desc that still has active users, we > will leak the irqaction entries. Let's remove them in > unregister_irq_proc().
How exactly is an interrupt descriptor freed which has still active users?
If that happens then the procfs entry leak is the least of your worries.
Thanks,
tglx
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