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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] icmp: avoid allocating large struct on stack
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:14:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370135682.2637.1.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370064152.24311.19.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 22:22 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 11:24 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> > From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> > 
> > struct icmp_bxm is a large struct, reduce stack usage
> > by allocating it on heap.
> > 
> 
> Strange, I posted a patch like that some days ago.

Strange, why it isn't merged. :)

> 
> Please.
> 
> Read carefully this code and tell me if you do not leak memory.

Right, I missed some kfree.

> 
> For the record my patch was saving more stack space :

Please submit it as a normal patch?

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-02  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-01  3:24 [Patch net-next] icmp: avoid allocating large struct on stack Cong Wang
2013-06-01  3:34 ` Joe Perches
2013-06-01  3:42   ` Cong Wang
2013-06-01  5:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-02  1:14   ` Cong Wang [this message]

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