Whild reading virtio code, I found some memory leak in removing
virtio_net.

In virtnet_remove, only skb has been freed not the pages in skb
frags. Here is the patch to fix this, please review it.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 2a6e81d..7e629d9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
        /* Free our skbs in send and recv queues, if any. */
        while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&vi->recv)) != NULL) {
+               trim_pages(vi, skb);
                kfree_skb(skb);
                vi->num--;
        }




Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 2a6e81d..7e629d9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 	/* Free our skbs in send and recv queues, if any. */
 	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&vi->recv)) != NULL) {
+		trim_pages(vi, skb);
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		vi->num--;
 	}

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