Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964826AbbLGQNg (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:13:36 -0500 Received: from postler.einfach.org ([5.9.2.179]:49511 "EHLO postler.einfach.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753728AbbLGQNd (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:13:33 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 530 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:13:33 EST Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: fix gigantic memleak in rtl_usb To: Peter Wu , Larry Finger References: <1449424677-3140-1-git-send-email-peter@lekensteyn.nl> <5664981C.1040704@lwfinger.net> <20151206213926.GA30777@al> Cc: Chaoming Li , Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bruno Randolf Message-ID: <5665AE17.8010601@einfach.org> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:04:39 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151206213926.GA30777@al> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.11 (postler.einfach.org [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 587 Lines: 15 On 12/06/2015 09:39 PM, Peter Wu wrote: >>> While using the rtl8192cu driver in monitor mode, somehow 5G of memory >>> was permanently lost (observable via the Available column in `free -m`). >>> >>> This issue has existed since the introduction of this driver in v2.6.x, One more reason to switch to rtl8xxxu as soon as possible... bruno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/