From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shirley Ma Subject: [PATCH] fix memory leak in virtio_net Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:05:08 -0700 Message-ID: <1249934708.7400.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-Why0umBOxGz2UWiN5Nja" To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-Why0umBOxGz2UWiN5Nja Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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--; } --=-Why0umBOxGz2UWiN5Nja Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="memleak.patch" Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="memleak.patch"; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma 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--; } --=-Why0umBOxGz2UWiN5Nja--