netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/3] igb: fix memory leak when setting ring size while interface is down

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Message-Id: <20091026.160914.44259149.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:09:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/3] igb: fix memory leak when setting ring
 size while interface is down

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:31:47 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> 
> Changing ring sizes while the interface was down was causing a double
> allocation of the receive and transmit rings.  This issue is amplified when
> there are multiple rings enabled.  To prevent this we need to add an
> additional check which will just update the ring counts when the interface
> is not up and skip the allocation steps.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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