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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spidernet : fix memory leak in spider_net_stop
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:34:37 -0500
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Cc: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>,
	James K Lewis <jim@jklewis.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
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	Ishizaki Kou <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
To: Jens Osterkamp <jens@de.ibm.com>
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Jens Osterkamp wrote:
> We forget to call spider_net_free_rx_chain_contents which does the
> actual dev_kfree_skb. New skbs are allocated from skbuff_head_cache
> on each "ifconfig up" letting the cache grow infinitely.
> 
> This patch fixes it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <jens@de.ibm.com>

applied