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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:51:04 +0200
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   leaking route structures, please review
Message-ID:  <20010605145104.A68594@skriver.dk>

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Hi,

I've been looking at PR kern/25421, where Mark Smith <msmith@netapp.com>
have found a problem where we're leaking route structure, his fix
(http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jesper/pcb.diff) looks good to me, but could
you please have a look, as I'm not too familiar with this part of the
code.

His reasoning:

Since rt was the cached route of the pcb, the ref count is >= 1
since the pcb will have a ref count on it.  In the case of a dynamic
route, in_losing calls rtrequest to delete the route but not rtfree.
rtrequest() only deletes the route from the routing table.  It does not
free the route structure unless rt_refcnt is 0.  We know it won't be
zero because the pcb has a ref count.  As a result it appears that we
leak a route structure since it will never be freed.

/Jesper

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