memory leak in call_usermodehelper()

From: Srikumar Subramanian (SrikumarS_at_ami.com)
Date: 12/30/03

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Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 2003 02:32:01 -0500

    Hi All,

    From my customized system call, I merely call call_usermodehelper() to spawn
    a process. When I call my_system_call around 1000 times in order to spawn
    'hello world' program, I noticed in 'top' program that system has lost 200
    KB of free memory.
    I just increased the iteration to 700000, I lost the entire 128 MB free
    memory from my system and eventually the system is freezed.

    Any suggestion or patch to over come this issue ?

    Please 'cc' me in your reply.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Srikumar.
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