This is false report. I checked kfree_skb(), it does free all pages in the fraglist in skb_release_data() later.
Thanks Shirley On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:05 -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > 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--; > } > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
