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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:46:25 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [XFRM]: Fix leak of expired xfrm_states On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:05:27PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > This patch fixes a xfrm_state leak, which appears to be a > regression from the reference count simplifications. I was going to say this was a good find :) But digging deeper it seems that it might not be a bug after all. Even though the ref count on x may now drop to zero, it won't be freed until del_timer_sync returns which should be sufficient, no? Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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