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SubjectRe: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?
Russell King wrote:

>I don't know if the code is using fragment lists in ip_fragment(), but
>on reading the code a question comes to mind: if we have a list of
>fragments, does each fragment skb have a valid (and refcounted) dst
>pointer before ip_fragment() does it's job? If yes, then isn't the
>first ip_copy_metadata() in ip_fragment() going to overwrite this
>pointer without dropping the refcount?
>
Nice spotting. If conntrack isn't loaded defragmentation happens after
routing, so this is likely the cause.

Regards
Patrick

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