Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:54:45 +1030 | From | Jonathan Woithe <> | Subject | Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free |
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This post ties up a few loose ends in this thread which remained after my 21 March 2013 post.
* The memory leak was not present in 2.6.36.
* The patch to 2.6.35.11 at the end of this email (based on 48e6b121605512d87f8da1ccd014313489c19630 from linux-stable) resolves the memory leak in 2.6.35.11.
This gives us a workable solution while we await fixes to current mainline in the r8169 driver. Once that's done we can revalidate our systems against a more recent kernel and start shipping that.
Thanks to those who assisted with this issue.
Regards jonathan
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2013-03-25 10:32:15.365781434 +1100 +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2013-03-25 10:32:15.373782107 +1100 @@ -1387,6 +1387,8 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb err = netlink_unicast(sk, skb, dst_pid, msg->msg_flags&MSG_DONTWAIT); out: + scm_destroy(siocb->scm); + siocb->scm = NULL; return err; }
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