10.1-BETA2 possible kernel memory leak in routing table

[Mike Tancsa]

On 10/1/2014 9:51 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi,
	Is that easy fix

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-October/063178.html

Also, is there any work around to this ?  I tried a simple set of pf 
rules with no tables, hoping that was the cause of it, but memory grows 
with each pf reload.

	---Mike


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