From: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:30:23 -0500
> __pppoe_xmit must free any skb it allocates if there is an error
> submitting the skb downstream.
This isn't right, dev_queue_xmit() can return -ENETDOWN and still
free the SKB, so your change will cause the SKB to be freed up
twice in that case, from dev_queue_xmit():
rc = -ENETDOWN;
rcu_read_unlock_bh();
out_kfree_skb:
kfree_skb(skb);
return rc;
dev_queue_xmit() is basically expected to consume the packet,
error or not.
What case of calling dev_queue_xmit() did you discover that did not
kfree the SKB on error? We should fix that. On a quick scan on the
entire dev_queue_xmit() implmentation, I cannot find such a case.
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