Comment 16 for bug 1748408

I have a significant memory leak after upgrading from previous 4.10 series HWE kernels to the new 4.13 HWE series for Ubuntu 16.04 server with Ethernet controller Intel X710 for 10GbE SFP+

# dmesg | grep i40e
[ 1.625565] i40e: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver - version 2.1.14-k
[ 1.625565] i40e: Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 Intel Corporation.
[ 1.688509] i40e 0000:02:00.0: fw 5.40.47690 api 1.5 nvm 5.40 0x80002d35 18.0.17
[ 1.959126] i40e 0000:02:00.0: MAC address: 3c:fd:fe:1a:1d:e0
[ 2.060021] i40e 0000:02:00.0: PCI-Express: Speed 8.0GT/s Width x4
[ 2.060091] i40e 0000:02:00.0: PCI-Express bandwidth available for this device may be insufficient for optimal performance.
[ 2.060096] i40e 0000:02:00.0: Please move the device to a different PCI-e link with more lanes and/or higher transfer rate.
[ 2.085931] i40e 0000:02:00.0: Features: PF-id[0] VFs: 64 VSIs: 66 QP: 8 RSS FD_ATR FD_SB NTUPLE DCB VxLAN Geneve PTP VEPA
[ 2.140793] i40e 0000:02:00.1: fw 5.40.47690 api 1.5 nvm 5.40 0x80002d35 18.0.17
[ 2.422817] i40e 0000:02:00.1: MAC address: 3c:fd:fe:1a:1d:e2
[ 2.442684] i40e 0000:02:00.1: PCI-Express: Speed 8.0GT/s Width x4
[ 2.442696] i40e 0000:02:00.1: PCI-Express bandwidth available for this device may be insufficient for optimal performance.
[ 2.442715] i40e 0000:02:00.1: Please move the device to a different PCI-e link with more lanes and/or higher transfer rate.
[ 2.443043] i40e 0000:02:00.1: Features: PF-id[1] VFs: 64 VSIs: 66 QP: 8 RSS FD_ATR FD_SB NTUPLE DCB VxLAN Geneve PTP VEPA
[ 2.480205] i40e 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0f0: renamed from eth1
[ 2.512183] i40e 0000:02:00.1 enp2s0f1: renamed from eth0
[ 5.800514] i40e 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0f0: NIC Link is Up, 10 Gbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None