Le Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:31:02 +0530,
"Manish Katiyar" <mkatiyar@gmail.com> a =C3=A9crit :

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> So If i do a kzalloc() in my module and then unload my module without
> freeing it, it will be a memory leak...........Am i right ?? ..=20

Right. This memory will be lost.

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> Or the kernel is intelligent enough to check and free those memory
> buffers during unload of the module ?

No, there isn't such a mechanism in the Linux kernel.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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