Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: wwan: iosm: fix memory leak in ipc_wwan_dellink

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:46:08 -0700

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:02:06 +0800 zhaoping.shu wrote:
> From: hw.he <[email-masked]>
> 
> IOSM driver registers network device without setting the
> needs_free_netdev flag, and does NOT call free_netdev() when
> unregisters network device, which causes a memory leak.
> 
> This patch sets needs_free_netdev to true when registers
> network device, which makes netdev subsystem call free_netdev()
> automatically after unregister_netdevice().
> 
> Fixes: 2a54f2c77934 ("net: iosm: net driver")
> Signed-off-by: hw.he <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Loic Poulain <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: zhaoping.shu <[email-masked]>

Annoyingly the patches are still not making it to the list.

John, any hints you can gather from vger's logs? The patches
were resent 3 times with a 0 success rate.

Last time we hit this was with Gmail, but it doesn't seem like
mediatek.com is using Google Mail?