[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH kernel trixie-6.14] backport fix for memory leak with Intel NICs using the ice driver

Thomas Lamprecht t.lamprecht at proxmox.com
Mon Dec 15 14:05:40 CET 2025


On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:18:29 +0100, Friedrich Weber wrote:
> Users reported steadily growing memory usage with certain 6.8 and 6.14
> kernels on hosts using Intel NICs with the ice driver, especially if
> the NICs are used for Ceph traffic and configured with high MTU.
> 
> Kernel 6.14.11-3 was reported to alleviate but not entirely fix the
> issue, while 6.17 was reported to fix the issue [2]. Hence, backport
> the patch below which fixes a memory leak in the ice driver and is
> contained in 6.17, but not in 6.14.11-3.
> 
> [...]

Applied and currently also building a backport for the bookworm based releases,
thanks!

[1/1] backport fix for memory leak with Intel NICs using the ice driver
      commit: 07c838cd52f7a845db29e1eb2e24d8104b46de06




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