netdev - Re: PROBLEM: Memory leak (at least with SLUB) from "secpath

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Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:24:07 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@...il.com>
Cc:	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Memory leak (at least with SLUB) from "secpath_dup"
 (xfrm) in 3.5+ kernels

On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 22:59 +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:28:02 +0200
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 17:22 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 17:16 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > 
> > > > OK, I believe I found the bug in IPv4 defrag / IPv6 reasm
> > > > 
> > > > Please test the following patch.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks !
> > > 
> > > I'll send a more generic patch in a few minutes, changing
> > > kfree_skb_partial() to call skb_release_head_state()
> > > 
> > 
> > Here it is :
> > 
> ...
> 
> Problem is indeed gone in v3.7-rc2 with the proposed generic patch, I
> haven't read the mail in time to test the first one, but I guess it's
> not relevant now that the latter one works.
> 
> Thank you for taking your time to look into the problem and actually
> fix it.
> 
> I'm unclear about policies in place on the matter, but I think this
> patch might be a good candidate to backport into 3.5 and 3.6 kernels,
> because they seem to suffer from the issue as well.

Thanks a lot Mike for your help.

Dont worry, I'll submit an official patch with details and all credits. 

David Miller will forward it to stable teams.

Thanks !



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