memory leak in net_receive

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Subject: memory leak in net_receive
From: "Giuseppe Lettieri" <lettieri@iet.unipi.it>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:52:26 +0100
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We have noticed that, when networking code is running, available memory (managed by malloc_lmm) monotonically decreases. Looking at code in freebsd/net/net_receive.c (OSKit version 990722), we have found that the problem is caused by IEEE 802.3 frames. These frames are discarded. However, the corresponding sk_buff (encapsulated in a bufio object) is addref()erenced, but not release()d.

We do not have version 20000202 runnig. However, looking at the code, we think that the bug has not been removed.

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