Re: [PATCH] kaweth: Fix memory leak in kaweth_control()

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Sep 22 2009 - 17:19:06 EST


From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:43:30 -0700

> kaweth_control() never frees the buffer that it allocates for the USB
> control message. Test case:
>
> while :; do ifconfig eth2 down ; ifconfig eth2 up ; done
>
> This is a tiny buffer so it is a slow leak. If you want to speed up the
> process, you can change the allocation size to e.g. 16384 bytes, and it
> will consume several megabytes within a few minutes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

I've been trying to wait to give time for people like david-b
to review and bless the various USB networking patches that have
been posted over the past few weeks but I'm running out of
patience :-)

So simple ones like this I'm just gonna apply.
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