Re: -rc3 leaking NOT BIO [Was: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?]

From: Parag Warudkar (kernel-stuff_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/21/05

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    To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
    Date:	Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:57:40 -0500
    
    

    On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:38 pm, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
    > > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:52 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > > So it's probably an ndiswrapper bug?
    > >
    > > Andrew,
    > > It looks like it is a kernel bug triggered by NdisWrapper. Without
    > > NdisWrapper, and with just 8139too plus some light network activity the
    > > size-64 grew from ~ 1100 to 4500 overnight. Is this normal? I will keep
    > > it running to see where it goes.

    [OT]

    Didn't wanted to keep this hanging - It turned out to be a strange ndiswrapper
    bug - It seems that the other OS in question allows the following without a
    leak ;) -
    ptr =Allocate(...);
    ptr = Allocate(...);
    :
    repeat this zillion times without ever fearing that 'ptr' will leak..

    I sent a fix to ndiswrapper-general mailing list on sourceforge if any one is
    using ndiswrapper and having a similar problem.

    Parag
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