Without this patch, running alloc / free cache loop will lead to huge memory
leaks on machine with 3000 interfaces with tbf qdiscs.
Here was valgrind output:
==5580== 18,070,728 bytes in 347,514 blocks are definitely lost in loss record
32 of 32
==5580== at 0x4025485: calloc (in /lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-
linux.so)
==5580== by 0x405F410: tbf_msg_parser (tbf.c:46)
==5580== by 0x405302B: qdisc_msg_parser (qdisc.c:119)
==5580== by 0x4033DC9: nl_cache_parse (cache.c:643)
==5580== by 0x4033E7C: update_msg_parser (cache.c:460)
==5580== by 0x4038A11: nl_recvmsgs (netlink-local.h:112)
==5580== by 0x4034175: __cache_pickup (cache.c:483)
==5580== by 0x40343FF: nl_cache_pickup (cache.c:516)
==5580== by 0x403447D: nl_cache_refill (cache.c:698)
==5580== by 0x4034AB7: nl_cache_alloc_and_fill (cache.c:198)
==5580== by 0x4053216: rtnl_qdisc_alloc_cache (qdisc.c:388)
==5580== by 0x80489DB: main (in /home/root/nltest)
Patch complied and tested for same test case, no more leaks anymore.
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