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rps: memory leak due to forget to release rx queues

Message ID 4BA85A33.6050004@gmail.com
State Rejected, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Changli Gao March 23, 2010, 6:05 a.m. UTC
memory leak due to forget to release rx queues.

rx queues is allocated in alloc_netdev_mq(), but they aren't released in
free_netdev(), and the field rps_map is also miss.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
----
net/core/dev.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)



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Tom Herbert March 23, 2010, 6:44 a.m. UTC | #1
2010/3/22 Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>:
> memory leak due to forget to release rx queues.
>
> rx queues is allocated in alloc_netdev_mq(), but they aren't released in
> free_netdev(), and the field rps_map is also miss.
>

rx_queues can't be free from free_netdev since they contain kobjects
(only freed when refcnt goes to zero).  They should be freed when the
device kobject is freed (netdev_unregister_kobject).

Tom

> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
> ----
> net/core/dev.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index c0e2608..51b86e0 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -5746,6 +5746,14 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
>
>        release_net(dev_net(dev));
>
> +       if (dev->num_rx_queues) {
> +               int i;
> +
> +               for (i = 0; i < dev->num_rx_queues; i++)
> +                       kfree(dev->_rx[i].rps_map);
> +               kfree(dev->_rx);
> +       }
> +
>        kfree(dev->_tx);
>
>        /* Flush device addresses */
>
>
>
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Changli Gao March 23, 2010, 7:02 a.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/22 Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>:
>> memory leak due to forget to release rx queues.
>>
>> rx queues is allocated in alloc_netdev_mq(), but they aren't released in
>> free_netdev(), and the field rps_map is also miss.
>>

Thanks for explaining.
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diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c0e2608..51b86e0 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5746,6 +5746,14 @@  void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	release_net(dev_net(dev));
 
+	if (dev->num_rx_queues) {
+		int i;
+
+		for (i = 0; i < dev->num_rx_queues; i++)
+			kfree(dev->_rx[i].rps_map);
+		kfree(dev->_rx);
+	}
+
 	kfree(dev->_tx);
 
 	/* Flush device addresses */