Re: [PATCH] kaweth: Fix memory leak in kaweth_control()

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Am Samstag, 19. September 2009 03:43:30 schrieb Kevin Cernekee:
> kaweth_control() never frees the buffer that it allocates for the USB
> control message.  Test case:
>
> while :; do ifconfig eth2 down ; ifconfig eth2 up ; done
>
> This is a tiny buffer so it is a slow leak.  If you want to speed up the
> process, you can change the allocation size to e.g. 16384 bytes, and it
> will consume several megabytes within a few minutes.

You are right, the patch is correct. But it has to go to netdev, as it
is for a network driver. Please resend it and add
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Greg, it should go into stable, too.

	Regards
		Oliver

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