netdev - Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fixes memory leak in ibm

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:21:50 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@...mf1.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fixes memory leak in ibm_newemac ethernet
	driver

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:55 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> From: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@...mf1.com>
> 
> This patch addresses the memory leak happenning in drivers transmit queue
> under heavy load condition. Once the transmit queue becomes full, driver
> does an automatic wrapup of queue. During which the untransmitted SKB's are
> lost without getting freed up.

This would be a bug. We should stop the queue when full instead.

> Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@...mf1.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
> index aa407b2..ee868b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
> @@ -1328,6 +1328,13 @@ static int emac_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
>  
>  	DBG2(dev, "xmit(%u) %d" NL, len, slot);
>  
> +	if (dev->tx_skb[slot] && dev->tx_desc[slot].data_ptr) {
> +		dev_kfree_skb(dev->tx_skb[slot]);
> +		dev->tx_skb[slot] = NULL;
> +		dev->tx_cnt--;
> +		++dev->estats.tx_dropped;
> +	}
> +
>  	dev->tx_skb[slot] = skb;
>  	dev->tx_desc[slot].data_ptr = dma_map_single(&dev->ofdev->dev,
>  						     skb->data, len,

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