When the socket is released, we should free all packets queued in the per-socket list in order to avoid a memory leak. Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This patch was in the series "[PATCH v2 0/8] vsock/virtio: optimizations to increase the throughput" [1]. As Stefan suggested, I'm sending it as a separated patch. v3: - use list_for_each_entry_safe() [David] [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10938743/ --- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c index 602715fc9a75..f3f3d06cb6d8 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c @@ -786,12 +786,19 @@ static bool virtio_transport_close(struct vsock_sock *vsk) void virtio_transport_release(struct vsock_sock *vsk) { + struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs = vsk->trans; + struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt, *tmp; struct sock *sk = &vsk->sk; bool remove_sock = true; lock_sock(sk); if (sk->sk_type == SOCK_STREAM) remove_sock = virtio_transport_close(vsk); + + list_for_each_entry_safe(pkt, tmp, &vvs->rx_queue, list) { + list_del(&pkt->list); + virtio_transport_free_pkt(pkt); + } release_sock(sk); if (remove_sock) -- 2.20.1