----- "Wang Chao" <wang.chao(a)cn.fujitsu.com&gt; wrote: The do_radix_tree() function is not used by any other entity in the crash utility, but could be used by an extension module. It was added back in 2004 in crash version 3.8-1 -- before I kept the changelog file -- and I'm afraid I don't even have a record of who wrote the original version to give them credit. It was updated slightly by atyson(a)hp.com in 2008 (version 4.0-5.1), but as I recently discovered, it doesn't work for any kernel after linux-2.6.19, because it was written with a hardwired dependency on the radix_tree_node structure never changing, and it had hardwired copies of the kernel's RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT, RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE and RADIX_TREE_MAP_MASK #define's. In any case, for the next crash release, I have resurrected its functionality by re-writing it to not depend upon the radix_tree_node structure remaining unchanged, and made the 3 #define's dynamically calculated values. I did so in order to use do_radix_tree() with an update the "irq" command, so that it will work with 2.6.34 and later kernels that have replace the irq_desc[] array with the irq_desc_tree radix tree. Anyway, getting back to your patch, while it's certainly good practice to call FREEBUF() for any prior GETBUF() call, in reality it's not a memory leak. All buffers allocated with GETBUF() are *only* in effect for the lifetime of a particular crash command. If any buffers allocated by GETBUF() are not explicitly freed by FREEBUF(), they will be freed automatically by the free_all_bufs() function before the next "crash> " prompt. So it's impossible for them to cause a memory leak. But I'll certainly add the FREEBUF() call in your patch. Thanks, Dave