(copying Rusty, the virtio maintainer)

On 08/10/2009 11:05 PM, 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.


There were indeed reports of virtio ooming; this might be the cause.

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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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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