Commit a55eb05a authored Feb 01, 2007 by Jens Osterkamp Committed by Jeff Garzik Feb 02, 2007

spidernet : fix memory leak in spider_net_stop



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>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

parent a53a33da

drivers/net/spider_net.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -1925,6 +1925,8 @@ spider_net_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
		/* release chains */
		spider_net_release_tx_chain(card, 1);

		spider_net_free_rx_chain_contents(card);

		spider_net_free_chain(card, &card->tx_chain);
		spider_net_free_chain(card, &card->rx_chain);

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