#185 Memory leak in vmxnet when using XenApp receiver

[Tomas Chmelar]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a memory leak in vmxnet driver. When using XenApp receiver from Citrix to access a remote desktop, vmxnet fills dmesg with messages

eth0: Runt pkt (55 bytes) entry 31!

It's happening on Debian (wheezy), which routes traffic between two Ethernets - server on one eth0, client on second eth1. It's installed in ESXi 5.1.0

I saw a similar problem on forum and when I blindly tried to change vmxnet.c:2713 to

if (skb->len < (ETH_MIN_FRAME_LEN - 5)) {

memory consumption was fixed. But I'm not sure, what it could cause in other parts of code.

Used software:
open-vm-tools-9.4.0-1280544