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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: leaking route structures, please review
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<<On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:41:21 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> Hmm, and what happens if the PCB is the only holder of this route?
> The refcnt will be 1 in this case, and the code drops the reference
> by setting inp->inp_route.ro_rt = 0.  How this route can be reused
> (and deleted) later?

That would be a bug.  rtfree() must always be called before forgetting
a reference.

-GAWollman


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