netdev - Re: [Patch net v3] tun: fix a memory leak for tfile->tx

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 22:49:24 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net v3] tun: fix a memory leak for tfile->tx_array

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:37 PM, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2018年01月16日 14:33, Cong Wang wrote:
>> But __tun_detach(true) is not a hot path, a memset() doesn't harm
>> anything.
>
>
> Yes, but it looks more more like a workaround or trick to me.
>

I'd blame skb_array API for this. ;) Ideally, skb_array_cleanup()
should take care of everything I put in tun_cleanup_tx_array().
As I mentioned in changelog, we can always improve it in
-net-next, so I don't want to bother it for -net.