linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kaweth: Fix memory leak in kaweth

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Message-Id: <20090922.141914.61481427.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:19:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cernekee@...il.com
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kaweth: Fix memory leak in kaweth_control()

From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:43:30 -0700

> kaweth_control() never frees the buffer that it allocates for the USB
> control message.  Test case:
> 
> while :; do ifconfig eth2 down ; ifconfig eth2 up ; done
> 
> This is a tiny buffer so it is a slow leak.  If you want to speed up the
> process, you can change the allocation size to e.g. 16384 bytes, and it
> will consume several megabytes within a few minutes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.

I've been trying to wait to give time for people like david-b
to review and bless the various USB networking patches that have
been posted over the past few weeks but I'm running out of
patience :-)

So simple ones like this I'm just gonna apply.
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