10.1-BETA2 possible kernel memory leak in routing table

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 1 13:51:30 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:56:00PM -0700, Rumen Telbizov wrote:
R> Brian Somers and I are currently looking into the source of PF in latest
R> 10-STABLE and trying to figure out what is going on. We were able to
R> replicate this problem on a 11-CURRENT (Sep 12th) machine as well. A simple
R> PF ruleset with 1 rule and 1 table. Every few reloads of the firewall
R> and vmstat
R> -m | grep routetbl shows increased memory usage.

I plugged the easy leak, but there is also a hard one. Actually, the
entire pf_table.c needs a good shake. Right now I am out of time for this.

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