Michael Brown a3d508b648 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.

2006-08-09 01:24:32 +00:00

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