10.1-BETA2 possible kernel memory leak in routing table

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Thu Oct 16 20:19:21 UTC 2014


Hi,
	Have these two patches been merged to RELENG_10 ?

	---Mike

On 10/2/2014 6:25 PM, Rumen Telbizov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Alexander, Gleb: good news guys. The problem seems to be resolved! Good
> job.Here's what I have.
>
> 1. I upgraded the backup firewall to 10-STABLE (r272435), applied Gleb's
> patch of pf_table.c and rebuilt. Just as reported by Gleb, the leak seemed
> to be reduced but it was still present and leaked a little bit of memory
> upon every PF reload.
>
> 2. In addition to 1) I applied the second patch from Alexander on radix.c
> and rebuilt the kernel. After the reboot it seems like the amount of memory
> consumed by the routetbl grows a little bit temporarily after reload and
> then drops back to the previous, stable amount shortly after.
>
> Gleb, Alexander, thank you very much for your help. I appreciate your quick
> response in providing patches for this problem. I hope those 2 patches get
> tested by more people and get MFC'ed into 10-STABLE soon.


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