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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net_sched: fix memory leaks when rmmod tc action modules
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:27:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM_iQpXb6ngsdRDo3QpzTis22rdhPwBkv33BPG9WyBffdbTC5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455926779-9379-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
> We only release the memory of the hashtable itself, not its
> entries inside. We need to do both.
>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Hmm, after a second thought, actually each action should take
a reference to its module, therefore module will not be removed
until all the actions are gone, so no leak here.

The reason why I saw a leak is tcf_hashinfo_destroy() is called
in netns cleanup in the other patch.

So, this patch should be targeted for net-next only. I will resend it
with an updated changelog with the other patch.

Sorry for the confusion.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-21  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-20  0:06 [Patch net] net_sched: fix memory leaks when rmmod tc action modules Cong Wang
2016-02-21  0:27 ` Cong Wang [this message]

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