Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in virtio_net

From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:11:53 +0930

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:22:58 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
> (copying Rusty, the virtio maintainer)
> 
> On 08/10/2009 11:05 PM, Shirley Ma wrote:
> > Whild reading virtio code, I found some memory leak in removing
> > virtio_net.
> >
> > In virtnet_remove, only skb has been freed not the pages in skb
> > frags. Here is the patch to fix this, please review it.

Nope, kfree_skb() frees the frags.

It needs to, otherwise we leak on every received packet!

Cheers,
Rusty.