Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: Bug report: leak in isdn/module related part | From | Andreas Degert <> | Date | 03 Apr 1997 00:16:29 +0200 |
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I could reproduce the leakage with your script (sent to me by private email). When you delete the routes for a device, the struct fib_info is taken out of the list when the ref count goes to zero but the memory isn't returned. The patch is against 2.0.29.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- diff -u --recursive linux-2.0.orig/net/ipv4/route.c linux-2.0/net/ipv4/route.c --- linux-2.0.orig/net/ipv4/route.c Fri Jul 5 10:58:35 1996 +++ linux-2.0/net/ipv4/route.c Wed Apr 2 23:43:15 1997 @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ fi->fib_prev->fib_next = fi->fib_next; if (fi == fib_info_list) fib_info_list = fi->fib_next; + kfree_s(fi,sizeof(struct fib_info)); } kfree_s(f, sizeof(struct fib_node)); } -------------------------------------------------------------------- PS: I found the leak with my leak-finder kernel patches, posted to linux-kernel some days ago (couldn't resist advertising :-))
ciao
Andreas
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