Jouni Malinen wrote: > Fix a memory leak where AP mode did not free transmitted Beacon frame > skbs. > > Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/beacon.c > =================================================================== > --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/beacon.c 2008-12-05 18:37:37.000000000 +0200 > +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/beacon.c 2008-12-05 18:38:41.000000000 +0200 > @@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ > pci_unmap_single(sc->pdev, bf->bf_dmacontext, > skb->len, > PCI_DMA_TODEVICE); > + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); > } > > skb = ieee80211_beacon_get(sc->hw, vif); > Acked-by: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@xxxxxxxxx> I've been using ath9k in master mode for a few weeks and had noticed a severe memory leak (kill a gig of ram system in about a day). Figured it was just in hostapd, and haven't had time to track it down. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
