Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?

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From: linux
Date: Monday, January 7, 2008 - 11:52 pm

Just to keep the issue open, drivers/net/ipg.c currently in 2.6.24-rc6
still leaks skbuffs like a sieve.  Run it for a few hours with network
traffic and the machine swaps like crazy while the oom killer goes nuts.

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index d9107e5..4fa392c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ config IP1000
 	select MII
 	---help---
 	  This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards.
+	  It works, but suffers from a memory leak.  Signifcant
+	  use will consume unswappable kernel memory until the
+	  machine runs out of memory and crashes.  Thus, this
+	  driver cannot be considered usable at the the present time.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
 	  will be called ipg.  This is recommended.

Or should it be demoted to BROKEN?  It compiles, and sends and receives
packets, which is better than a lot of BROKEN drivers.
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Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?, Andrew Morton, (Fri Sep 28, 2:20 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?, Andrew Morton, (Sun Sep 30, 2:23 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?, linux, (Mon Jan 7, 11:52 pm)
Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?, David Miller, (Tue Jan 8, 12:07 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?, David Miller, (Tue Jan 8, 12:14 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?, Francois Romieu, (Tue Jan 8, 12:51 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak, Francois Romieu, (Tue Jan 8, 2:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak, David Miller, (Tue Jan 8, 4:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak, Francois Romieu, (Tue Jan 8, 4:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak, David Miller, (Wed Jan 9, 1:39 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak, Francois Romieu, (Wed Jan 9, 4:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak, Francois Romieu, (Wed Jan 9, 4:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net/ipg.c: Fix skbuff leak, David Miller, (Wed Jan 9, 4:56 pm)
ipg.c bugs, linux, (Thu Jan 10, 12:28 am)