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authorMichael Brown2006-08-09 03:24:32 +0200
committerMichael Brown2006-08-09 03:24:32 +0200
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Clarified packet ownership transfer between a few functions.
Added a large number of missing calls to free_pkb(). In the case of UDP, no received packets were ever freed, which lead to memory exhaustion remarkably quickly once pxelinux started up. In general, any function with _rx() in its name which accepts a pk_buff *must* either call free_pkb() or pass the pkb to another _rx() function (e.g. the next layer up the stack). Since the UDP (and TCP) layers don't pass packet buffers up to the higher-layer protocols (the "applications"), they must free the packet buffer after calling the application's newdata() method.
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