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From: Chad Dupuis <cdupuis@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:49:33 -0400
Subject: [net] netxen: fix tx ring memory leak
Message-id: <20100803134649.2239.82286.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Patchwork-id: 27316
O-Subject: [RHEL 5.6 PATCH 14/44] netxen: fix tx ring memory leak
Bugzilla: 562937
RH-Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>

Bugzilla
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562937

Upstream Status
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net-2.6 commit id 011f4ea09768fdf6f95e3781cba2ed681a2ac710

Description
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>From bfd9cb5eccfdcf91f456f3721af7548f083630bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:10:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] netxen: fix tx ring memory leak

o While unloading driver or resetting the context, tx ring was not
  getting free.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
index c686253..30a561e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ skip_rds:
 
 	tx_ring = adapter->tx_ring;
 	vfree(tx_ring->cmd_buf_arr);
+	kfree(tx_ring);
+	adapter->tx_ring = NULL;
 }
 
 int netxen_alloc_sw_resources(struct netxen_adapter *adapter)