[PATCH] spidernet : fix memory leak in spider_net_stop

Ishizaki Kou kou.ishizaki at toshiba.co.jp
Thu Feb 8 15:15:06 EST 2007


Jeff-san,

> 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 at de.ibm.com>
> 
> applied

This fix was applied twice to netdev-2.6.git#upstream.
Because Linas-san's patch has been applied to netdev-2.6.git#upstream.

Best regards,
Kou Ishizaki



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