netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: ipv4: fix potential memory leak by assigning uhash

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:32:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mark.asselstine@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: ipv4: fix potential memory leak by
 assigning uhash_entries

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:04:46 +0200

> Arg no, I really wanted to get more hash slots in my 32bit machines,
> with 4Gbytes of memory.
> 
> Here is what I currently have (without your patch)
> 
> [    1.903086] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> 
> 
> I mean, this kmemleak was already reported.
> 
> 32MB machines are things of the past.
> 
> If you really care, please add a change to alloc_large_system_hash() ?

Crap, I thought that argument to alloc_large_system_hash() provided a
lower bound.

Indeed, I'm going to revert this patch.
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