Re: [Yaffs] Running fsstress on YAFFS2 causes panic

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 19:21:08 rohit h wrote:

> Hello all,
> I instrumented yaffs2 code (picked from yaffs2 cvs on 5th Oct 2007) to find
> out memory usage.
> In yaffs_MknodObject( ) and yaffs_CheckObjectDetailsLoaded( ), if we
> get symbolic link
> we call yaffs_CloneString( ) which kmallocs some memory.
> I have a doubt as to where this memory is being freed.
> Can somebody help ?
> Thanks
> Rohit

The cloned string is just a copy of the passed in string. It is attached as
the alias string.

This is freed in static int yaffs_DeleteSymLink(), called by DestroyObject()
and yaffs_UnlinkWorker().

-- Charles