Add cc's.

On 03/31, Andrew Morton wrote:
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>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:31:13 +0100
> Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>
> > Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote:
> > > I got below report with 2.6.33.1 .
> > >
> > > unreferenced object 0xde144600 (size 64):
> > >   comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294678101 (age 291.508s)
> >
> > [... snip ...]
> >
> > I reported similar leaks last year -
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/8/422. There is some analysis in the thread
> > above of the reference counting but I couldn't figure out where it goes
> > wrong. It looks to me like there isn't any reference to a struct pid
> > block but its reference count is 2.
> >
> > There is a bugzilla entry as well -
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13868

OK. I do not undertand ttys, absolutely. This means the patch
should not be applied without acks. And in fact I feel the patch
probably fixes the symptom, not the problem. But the logic in
disassociate_ctty() is beyond my understanding.

However, I think it is easy to explain the leak.

Catalin, Tetsuo, could you try this patch?

Oleg.

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