From 4f84d82f7a623f8641af2574425c329431ff158f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Denis V. Lunev" Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:54:15 -0800 Subject: [NETNS]: Memory leak on network namespace stop. Network namespace allocates 2 kernel netlink sockets, fibnl & rtnl. These sockets should be disposed properly, i.e. by sock_release. Plain sock_put is not enough. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c index 8ddcd3f91a17..4e5216e9aacb 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ static void nl_fib_lookup_exit(struct net *net) * initial network namespace. So the socket will be safe to free. */ net->ipv4.fibnl->sk_net = get_net(&init_net); - sock_put(net->ipv4.fibnl); + sock_release(net->ipv4.fibnl->sk_socket); } static void fib_disable_ip(struct net_device *dev, int force) -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b