netdev - Re: [Patch net v3] tun: fix a memory leak for tfile->tx

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:00:52 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net v3] tun: fix a memory leak for tfile->tx_array



On 2018年01月16日 13:49, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think then you don't even need the memset trick since we are sure it has
>> been implemented?
> It doesn't look like sk_alloc() zero's the memory of tfile.

Typo, for "implemented" I mean "initialized".

I mean we can leave __tun_detach() as is, and just add the cleanup to 
tun_detach_all(). This is because in both cases, we're sure skb array 
has been initialized before.

Thanks