Method and apparatus for post-mortem kernel memory leak detection

Methods and apparatus for detecting and reporting memory leaks associated with an operating system are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method for identifying a section of dynamically allocated memory which may not be explicitly freed includes processing information associated with a failure of an operating system and identifying a call-site that is associated with the section of the dynamically allocated memory using the information. Once the call-site is identified, a report may be generated to identify the call-site as being associated with the section of dynamically allocated memory. In one embodiment, obtaining information associated with a failure of the operating system includes obtaining an image of the operating system which is created when a kernel associated with the operating system crashes.