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authorInaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>2009-01-19 13:19:30 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-01-19 17:58:08 -0800
commitf4895b8bc83a22a36446c4aee277e1750fcc6a18 (patch)
treee1c340f625af67069b23d693bde9e4ddb9da7ce6 /drivers/net
parentfe65e704534de5d0661ebc3466a2b9018945f694 (diff)
wimax/i2400m: error paths that need to free an skb should use kfree_skb()
Roel Kluin reported a bug in two error paths where skbs were wrongly being freed using kfree(). He provided a fix where it was replaced to kfree_skb(), as it should be. However, in i2400mu_rx(), the error path was missing returning an indication of the failure. Changed to reset rx_skb to NULL and return it to the caller, i2400mu_rxd(). It will be treated as a transient error and just ignore the packet. Depending on the buffering conditions inside the device, the data packet might be dropped or the device will signal the host again for data-ready-to-read and the host will retry. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/control.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-rx.c9
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/control.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/control.c
index d3d37fed6893..15d9f51b292c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/control.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/control.c
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ void i2400m_msg_to_dev_cancel_wait(struct i2400m *i2400m, int code)
spin_lock_irqsave(&i2400m->rx_lock, flags);
ack_skb = i2400m->ack_skb;
if (ack_skb && !IS_ERR(ack_skb))
- kfree(ack_skb);
+ kfree_skb(ack_skb);
i2400m->ack_skb = ERR_PTR(code);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i2400m->rx_lock, flags);
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-rx.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-rx.c
index 074cc1f89853..a314799967cf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-rx.c
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ void i2400mu_rx_size_maybe_shrink(struct i2400mu *i2400mu)
* NOTE: this function might realloc the skb (if it is too small),
* so always update with the one returned.
* ERR_PTR() is < 0 on error.
+ * Will return NULL if it cannot reallocate -- this can be
+ * considered a transient retryable error.
*/
static
struct sk_buff *i2400mu_rx(struct i2400mu *i2400mu, struct sk_buff *rx_skb)
@@ -243,8 +245,8 @@ retry:
if (printk_ratelimit())
dev_err(dev, "RX: Can't reallocate skb to %d; "
"RX dropped\n", rx_size);
- kfree(rx_skb);
- result = 0;
+ kfree_skb(rx_skb);
+ rx_skb = NULL;
goto out; /* drop it...*/
}
kfree_skb(rx_skb);
@@ -344,7 +346,8 @@ int i2400mu_rxd(void *_i2400mu)
if (IS_ERR(rx_skb))
goto out;
atomic_dec(&i2400mu->rx_pending_count);
- if (rx_skb->len == 0) { /* some ignorable condition */
+ if (rx_skb == NULL || rx_skb->len == 0) {
+ /* some "ignorable" condition */
kfree_skb(rx_skb);
continue;
}