[Click] [PATCH] patches for linux 2.6.24
Eddie Kohler
kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Oct 31 01:25:32 EDT 2008
Hi Joonwoo, a note for an old mail:
Joonwoo Park wrote:
> Hi forks,
> I've updated draft patch for linux 2.6.24.
> - fix spinlock init macro
> - re-enable skb_recycle
> - fix enormous memory leak in skb_recycle
>
> Eddie,
> I guess, also the version of 2.6.19's skb_recycle needs
> skb_release_data for fix potential memory leakage.
> Please consider it.
In fact in 2.6.19, kfree_skbmem() called skb_release_data() directly. So the
separate call to skb_release_data() is needed only for 2.6.24.
Eddie
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