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Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

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Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 06:00:40 +0100
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@ wrote:

In article <E1CvSuS-00056x-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:11:32 
+1100), Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:


Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, final decision: you are right :) conntrack also defragments locally
generated packets before they hit ip_fragment. In this case the fragments
have skb->dst set.

Well caught.  The same thing is needed for IPv6, right?


(not yet confirmed, but) yes, please.

We don't need this for IPv6 yet. Once we get nf_conntrack in we
might need this, but its IPv6 fragment handling is different from
ip_conntrack, I need to check first.

Regards
Patrick


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