netdev - Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?

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Date:	8 Jan 2008 01:52:11 -0500
From:	linux@...izon.com
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	romieu@...zoreil.com
Cc:	linux@...izon.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem.  Mem leak?  ip1000a?

Just to keep the issue open, drivers/net/ipg.c currently in 2.6.24-rc6
still leaks skbuffs like a sieve.  Run it for a few hours with network
traffic and the machine swaps like crazy while the oom killer goes nuts.

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index d9107e5..4fa392c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ config IP1000
 	select MII
 	---help---
 	  This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards.
+	  It works, but suffers from a memory leak.  Signifcant
+	  use will consume unswappable kernel memory until the
+	  machine runs out of memory and crashes.  Thus, this
+	  driver cannot be considered usable at the the present time.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
 	  will be called ipg.  This is recommended.

Or should it be demoted to BROKEN?  It compiles, and sends and receives
packets, which is better than a lot of BROKEN drivers.
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