Bug#561890: lenny kernel memory leak?

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:32:17PM +1000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:17 +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7087a828f8714e464fff18d93618727530dfd89;hp=5adf6d63c1697ce1835daf2b5393488a71ee0dca
> > > 
> > > Did it fix the issue?
> > 
> > Yes, this does fix the issue. I had not done kernel upgrades since Dec 2009 and
> > the custom 2.6.26 with that patch survived a whole year. Then after applying
> > kernel security updates the machine was running out of memory again.
> > Another custom build of 2.6.26-26lenny1 with that patch is much better
> > and slab is not growing like without the patch.
> > 
> > Please apply that patch to lenny kernels in the next bug fix round.
> 
> I've added the following patch.

Thanks!

-Mikko