[PATCH] 8021q memory leak

Michael Rozhavsky (mrozhavsky@mrv.com)
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:29:36 +0200


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Hi,

There is a memory leak in vlan module of 2.4.20

When last vlan of the group is removed the group is unhashed but not
deleted.

Attached patch fixes this memory leak and completes implementation of
memory debug output.

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  Michael Rozhavsky
  Senior Software Engineer
  MRV International
  Tel: +972 (4) 993-6248
  Fax: +972 (4) 989-0564
  http://www.mrv.com

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diff -u linux-2.4.20/net/8021q/vlan.c linux-2.4.20-test/net/8021q/vlan.c --- linux-2.4.20/net/8021q/vlan.c 2002-11-29 01:53:15.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.4.20-test/net/8021q/vlan.c 2003-01-30 20:19:12.000000000 +0200 @@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ next = *pprev; } *pprev = grp->next; + kfree (grp); + VLAN_MEM_DBG("vlan_group kfree, addr: %p size: %i\n", grp, sizeof(struct vlan_group)); } /* Find the protocol handler. Assumes VID < VLAN_VID_MASK. @@ -509,6 +545,7 @@ */ if (!grp) { /* need to add a new group */ grp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vlan_group), GFP_KERNEL); + VLAN_MEM_DBG("vlan_group malloc, addr: %p size: %i\n", grp, sizeof(struct vlan_group)); if (!grp) goto out_free_newdev_priv; @@ -546,9 +583,13 @@ out_free_newdev_priv: kfree(new_dev->priv); + VLAN_MEM_DBG("new_dev->priv kfree, addr: %p size: %i\n", + new_dev->priv, sizeof(struct vlan_dev_info)); out_free_newdev: kfree(new_dev); + VLAN_MEM_DBG("net_device kfree, addr: %p size: %i\n", + new_dev, sizeof (struct net_device)); out_unlock: rtnl_unlock(); diff -u linux-2.4.20/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c linux-2.4.20-test/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c --- linux-2.4.20/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c 2002-11-29 01:53:15.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.4.20-test/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c 2003-01-30 20:06:26.000000000 +0200 @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ #ifdef VLAN_DEBUG printk(VLAN_DBG "%s: dropping skb: %p because came in on wrong device, dev: %s real_dev: %s, skb_dev: %s\n", - __FUNCTION__ skb, dev->name, + __FUNCTION__, skb, dev->name, VLAN_DEV_INFO(skb->dev)->real_dev->name, skb->dev->name); #endif @@ -783,8 +783,13 @@ BUG(); kfree(dev->priv); + VLAN_MEM_DBG("dev->priv kfree, addr: %p size: %i\n", + dev->priv, sizeof(struct vlan_dev_info)); dev->priv = NULL; } + /* will be deleted by kernel */ + VLAN_MEM_DBG("net_device kfree, addr: %p size: %i\n", + dev, sizeof (struct net_device)); } }

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