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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix memory leak in virtio_net
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:05:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249934708.7400.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

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Whild reading virtio code, I found some memory leak in removing
virtio_net.

In virtnet_remove, only skb has been freed not the pages in skb
frags. Here is the patch to fix this, please review it.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 2a6e81d..7e629d9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 	/* Free our skbs in send and recv queues, if any. */
 	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&vi->recv)) != NULL) {
+		trim_pages(vi, skb);
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		vi->num--;
 	}





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Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 2a6e81d..7e629d9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 	/* Free our skbs in send and recv queues, if any. */
 	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&vi->recv)) != NULL) {
+		trim_pages(vi, skb);
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		vi->num--;
 	}

             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-10 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-10 20:05 Shirley Ma [this message]
2009-08-11  5:03 ` [PATCH] fix memory leak in virtio_net Shirley Ma
2009-08-11 11:52 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-11 16:56   ` Shirley Ma
2009-08-12 12:41   ` Rusty Russell

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