Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:19:14 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kaweth: Fix memory leak in kaweth_control() | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:43:30 -0700
> kaweth_control() never frees the buffer that it allocates for the USB > control message. Test case: > > while :; do ifconfig eth2 down ; ifconfig eth2 up ; done > > This is a tiny buffer so it is a slow leak. If you want to speed up the > process, you can change the allocation size to e.g. 16384 bytes, and it > will consume several megabytes within a few minutes. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks.
I've been trying to wait to give time for people like david-b to review and bless the various USB networking patches that have been posted over the past few weeks but I'm running out of patience :-)
So simple ones like this I'm just gonna apply.
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