Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2

From	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2
Date	2016-08-25 17:30 +0200
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On 08/25/2016 01:22 AM, Frederic Dalleau wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> On 24/08/2016 22:02, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 08/21/2016 07:09 AM, Frederic Dalleau wrote:
>>>>>> I am unable to unload module bluetooth to verify that the second
>>>>>> leak is not a false positive; however, the one in btusb is a real
>>>>>> memory leak.
>
>>> I have a patch on the grill.
>
>> Any progress on this patch?
>
> Yes, it is in bluetooth-stable.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=147205068529234&w=2

Fred,

Thanks for the link. That patch fixes the leaks that I was seeing from 
bluetooth. It also seems to have fixed the leaks that were attributed to btusb. 
At least, none have shown up in my preliminary testing.

Larry

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Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-08-19 23:20 +0200
  Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-20 08:10 +0200
    Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com> - 2016-08-20 09:20 +0200
      Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Frederic Dalleau <frederic.dalleau@collabora.co.uk> - 2016-08-21 14:20 +0200
        Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-08-24 22:10 +0200
          Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Frederic Dalleau <frederic.dalleau@collabora.co.uk> - 2016-08-25 08:40 +0200
            Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-08-25 17:30 +0200
    Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-08-20 18:30 +0200

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