When repeatedly doing rmmod and modprobe on the ixgbe
driver while FCoE is active in a VN2VN configuration,
memory leaks would be discovered by kmemleak with the
following backtrace:
unreferenced object 0xffff88003d076000 (size 1024):
comm "kworker/0:3", pid 2998, jiffies 4295436448 (age 1015.332s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
48 8a fe 6f 00 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 H..o............
01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 7b ac 87 21 1b 00 00 10 ........{..!....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814b308b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x5b/0xc0
[<ffffffff8115c6e8>] __kmalloc+0xd8/0x1b0
[<ffffffffa0216638>] fc_rport_create+0x48/0x1f0 [libfc]
[<ffffffffa023cd86>] fcoe_ctlr_vn_add.isra.10+0x56/0x1a0 [libfcoe]
[<ffffffffa023f440>] fcoe_ctlr_vn_recv+0x8b0/0xab0 [libfcoe]
[<ffffffffa023fb06>] fcoe_ctlr_recv_work+0x4c6/0xf60 [libfcoe]
[<ffffffff81067404>] process_one_work+0x1e4/0x4d0
[<ffffffff81068def>] worker_thread+0x10f/0x380
[<ffffffff8107019a>] kthread+0xea/0xf0
[<ffffffff814d32ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
This patch stops the leak of the fc_rport_priv structure.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jack Morgan <jack.morgan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
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