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Bug 631963

Summary:	[Broadcom 5.6 bug] tg3: 5717 / 57765 / 5719 devices leak memory
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John Feeney <jfeeney>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.6	CC:	andriusb, benlu, cward, gideonn, hjia, jfeeney, mcarlson, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	OtherQA, Regression
Target Release:	5.6
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Matt Carlson 2010-09-08 18:48:06 UTC

Description of problem:

There is a memory leak in the tg3 driver when using 5717 / 57765 or 5719 devices.  There is an rx producer ring that does not get cleaned up properly.
Upstream commit b28f6428af279ffb9e97ee00486a29498b7fcfdc, entitled "tg3: Fix a memory leak on 5717+ devices", fixes the problem.

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Comment 1 John Feeney 2010-09-24 19:15:11 UTC

Rpms with this fix can be found on my people page. See http://people.redhat.com/jfeeney/.bzrhel56

Testing feedback would be appreciated.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-09-24 19:29:25 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 Matt Carlson 2010-10-12 00:13:41 UTC

Verified the fix is in place through code review.

Comment 5 Jarod Wilson 2010-10-14 14:03:12 UTC

in kernel-2.6.18-227.el5
You can download this test kernel (or newer) from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5

Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed.

Comment 7 Gideon Naim 2010-10-15 05:24:20 UTC

This has been verified by our QA running load/unload and ifconfig up/down.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 21:16:04 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html