netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: fix a memory leak

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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:40:28 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: fix a memory leak

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:36 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:03:16 +0800
>
>> nf_bridge_alloc() always reset the skb->nf_bridge, so we should always
>> put the old one. skb->nf_bridge->use is initialized in nf_bridge_alloc(),
>> so we don't need to initialize it again.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
>
> We just memcpy()'d 'nf_bridge' to 'tmp', that why the ->use count is
> going to be something other than '1'.  It now has the ->use count that
> 'nf_bridge' did.
>
> And that is why we must explicitly do atomic_set() on 'tmp'.
>

Oops, thanks. I'll post a update.


-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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