linux-kernel - Re: SIOCGIWRATE (and others) leaking SLAB (kmalloc-2048)

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Message-ID: <65c3516a-c8a5-a860-a31c-bbed005a6305@message-id.googlemail.com>
Date:   Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:58:49 +0200
From:   Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@...glemail.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SIOCGIWRATE (and others) leaking SLAB (kmalloc-2048)

Am 30.09.18 um 11:50 schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
> Am 30.09.18 um 11:43 schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
>> Looking at the commit, the bug might have been already in 4.18, which
>> I'm trying to confirm right now.
> 
> 4.18.8 (which was easily available to me prebuilt) has the same problem.

I think I found and fixed the problem, see
[PATCH] cfg80211: fix wext-compat memory leak

Best regards,

Stefan
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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