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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:55:52 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] w35und: plug memory leak in wbsoft_tx()

On Tue 2008-10-28 23:08:50, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Tue 2008-10-28 00:14:38, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> >> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> >>
> >> There's no reason to duplicate the skb in wbsoft_tx() and leak GFP_ATOMIC
> >> memory as the contents are copied to ->TxBuffer in MdxTx() anyway before
> >> MLMESendFrame() returns.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> wrote:
> > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
> >
> > ...but I guess I should test the this after it hits the mainline...
> 
> For sure. I'm bit surprised no one noticed this before as it seems to
> be leaking memory for every transmitted frame...

Well, I'm not quite surprised.  I noticed the driver stops working
after a while, but at that point it was a small miracle that it worked
at all...

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