Bug 148890
Summary: | ndiswrapper exposes kernel memory leak | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jonathan Berry <berryja> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 3 | CC: | pfrields, wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2005-02-22 04:26:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jonathan Berry
2005-02-16 17:07:36 UTC
Well, it seems I may have spoken too soon. It seems that ndiswrapper misinterpreted something in the NDIS protocol. This lead to a situation where the Windows driver was making numerous calls to a function that the wrapper allocated memory in, but corresponding free calls were not made. I was told this behavior was only seen in certain kernel versions, thus making it appear to be a kernel thing. It now seems to be an ndiswrapper thing, so I'm marking it NOTABUG (as far as the kernel goes). For those interested, it should be fixed in ndiswrapper 1.1rc1 as of 2005-02-21. There is also a patch for version 1.0 if you can only use that as I have only been able to with 64-bit Broadcom drivers. Sorry for the false alarm :). |