Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

[Phil Oester <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 03:34:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> I think the case against the IPv4 fragmentation code is mounting.
> However, without knowing what the expected conditions for this code,
> (eg, are skbs on the fraglist supposed to have NULL skb->dst?) I'm
> unable to progress this any further.  However, I think it's quite
> clear that there is something bad going on here.

Interesting...the gateway which exhibits the problem fastest in my
area does have a large number of fragmented UDP packets running through it,
as shown by tcpdump 'ip[6:2] & 0x1fff != 0'.

> Why many more people aren't seeing this I've no idea.

Perhaps you (and I) experience more fragments than the average user???

Nice detective work!

Phil