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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fixes memory leak in ibm_newemac ethernet driver
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:55:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214225712-25882-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> (raw)

From: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>

This patch addresses the memory leak happenning in drivers transmit queue
under heavy load condition. Once the transmit queue becomes full, driver
does an automatic wrapup of queue. During which the untransmitted SKB's are
lost without getting freed up.

Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
---
 drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
index aa407b2..ee868b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
@@ -1328,6 +1328,13 @@ static int emac_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 
 	DBG2(dev, "xmit(%u) %d" NL, len, slot);
 
+	if (dev->tx_skb[slot] && dev->tx_desc[slot].data_ptr) {
+		dev_kfree_skb(dev->tx_skb[slot]);
+		dev->tx_skb[slot] = NULL;
+		dev->tx_cnt--;
+		++dev->estats.tx_dropped;
+	}
+
 	dev->tx_skb[slot] = skb;
 	dev->tx_desc[slot].data_ptr = dma_map_single(&dev->ofdev->dev,
 						     skb->data, len,
-- 
1.5.6

             reply	other threads:[~2008-06-23 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-23 12:55 Stefan Roese [this message]
2008-06-23 23:21 ` [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fixes memory leak in ibm_newemac ethernet driver Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-02  4:45   ` SathyaNarayanan
2008-07-02  5:46     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-02  6:11       ` SathyaNarayanan

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