Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:38:41 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] hv_netvsc: Fix memory leak when removing rndis device | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:09:50 +0200
> kmemleak detects the following memory leak when hot removing > a network device: > > unreferenced object 0xffff888083f63600 (size 256): ... > > rndis_filter_device_add() allocates an instance of struct rndis_device > which never gets deallocated as rndis_filter_device_remove() sets > net_device->extension which points to the rndis_device struct to NULL, > leaving the rndis_device dangling. > > Since net_device->extension is eventually freed in free_netvsc_device(), > we refrain from setting it to NULL inside rndis_filter_device_remove() > > Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
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