[PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fixes memory leak in ibm_newemac ethernet driver

[Stefan Roese]

From: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan at teamf1.com>

This patch addresses the memory leak happenning in drivers transmit queue
under heavy load condition. Once the transmit queue becomes full, driver
does an automatic wrapup of queue. During which the untransmitted SKB's are
lost without getting freed up.

Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan at teamf1.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
---
 drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
index aa407b2..ee868b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
@@ -1328,6 +1328,13 @@ static int emac_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 
 	DBG2(dev, "xmit(%u) %d" NL, len, slot);
 
+	if (dev->tx_skb[slot] && dev->tx_desc[slot].data_ptr) {
+		dev_kfree_skb(dev->tx_skb[slot]);
+		dev->tx_skb[slot] = NULL;
+		dev->tx_cnt--;
+		++dev->estats.tx_dropped;
+	}
+
 	dev->tx_skb[slot] = skb;
 	dev->tx_desc[slot].data_ptr = dma_map_single(&dev->ofdev->dev,
 						     skb->data, len,
-- 
1.5.6