netdev - Re: [jkirsher/net-queue PATCH] i40e: Add programming descriptors to cleaned

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Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:15:00 +0200
From:   Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>
To:     "Anders K. Pedersen | Cohaesio" <akp@...aesio.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "alexander.duyck@...il.com" <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [jkirsher/net-queue PATCH] i40e: Add programming descriptors to
 cleaned_count

Yes can confirm that after adding patch:

[jkirsher/net-queue PATCH] i40e: Add programming descriptors to 
cleaned_count


There is no memleak.



W dniu 2017-10-22 o 20:01, Anders K. Pedersen | Cohaesio pisze:
> On lør, 2017-10-21 at 18:12 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>>
>> This patch updates the i40e driver to include programming descriptors
>> in
>> the cleaned_count. Without this change it becomes possible for us to
>> leak
>> memory as we don't trigger a large enough allocation when the time
>> comes to
>> allocate new buffers and we end up overwriting a number of rx_buffers
>> equal
>> to the number of programming descriptors we encountered.
>>
>> Fixes: 0e626ff7ccbf ("i40e: Fix support for flow director programming
>> status")
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> This patch solves the remaining memory leak we've seen, so
>
> Tested-by: Anders K. Pedersen <akp@...aesio.com>
>
> Regards,
> Anders