From: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks.
