linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio-input: reset device during remove

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Date:	Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:18:20 +0800
From:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kraxel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-input: reset device during remove



On 08/05/2015 03:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 03:20:18PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> > Spec requires a device reset during cleanup, so do it and avoid warn
>> > in virtio core.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> OK but now that I look at this driver, that's not enough.
>
> Need to also detach and free unused buffers, otherwise
> we leak memory in evt and sts queues.

Probably only sts. For evt queue, all buffer it used was an array
embedded in virtio_input structure (vi->evts[])
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