netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix rose.ko oops on unload

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Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:21:33 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	pidoux@....jussieu.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix rose.ko oops on unload

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:04:20PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >Quick'n'dirty fix to 100% oops on "rmmod rose". Do you want me to
> >properly unwind everything before .24?
> >-----------
> >Commit a3d384029aa304f8f3f5355d35f0ae274454f7cd aka
> >"[AX.25]: Fix unchecked rose_add_loopback_neigh uses"
> >transformed rose_loopback_neigh var into statically allocated one.
> >However, on unload it will be kfree's which can't work.
> 
> I'm definitely missing something...  assuming your patch is applied, 
> where is the kfree() for rose_loopback_neigh ?

AFAICS, it will be glued to rose_neigh_list in rose_add_loopback_neigh().
On unload, found and rose_remove_neigh() will free it.
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