[PATCH 6/14] Spidernet another skb mem leak

Linas Vepstas linas at austin.ibm.com
Thu Dec 14 08:16:18 EST 2006


Another skb leak in an error branch. Fix this by adding
call to dev_kfree_skb_irq() after moving to a more
appropriate spot.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas at austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis at us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

----
 drivers/net/spider_net.c |   23 ++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.19-git7/drivers/net/spider_net.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-git7.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.c	2006-12-13 14:24:16.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.19-git7/drivers/net/spider_net.c	2006-12-13 14:24:20.000000000 -0600
@@ -926,19 +926,8 @@ spider_net_pass_skb_up(struct spider_net
 
 	data_status = descr->data_status;
 	data_error = descr->data_error;
-
 	netdev = card->netdev;
 
-	/* the cases we'll throw away the packet immediately */
-	if (data_error & SPIDER_NET_DESTROY_RX_FLAGS) {
-		if (netif_msg_rx_err(card))
-			pr_err("error in received descriptor found, "
-			       "data_status=x%08x, data_error=x%08x\n",
-			       data_status, data_error);
-		card->spider_stats.rx_desc_error++;
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	skb = descr->skb;
 	skb->dev = netdev;
 	skb_put(skb, descr->valid_size);
@@ -1037,6 +1026,18 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide
 		goto refill;
 	}
 
+	/* The cases we'll throw away the packet immediately */
+	if (descr->data_error & SPIDER_NET_DESTROY_RX_FLAGS) {
+		if (netif_msg_rx_err(card))
+			pr_err("%s: error in received descriptor found, "
+			       "data_status=x%08x, data_error=x%08x\n",
+			       card->netdev->name,
+			       descr->data_status, descr->data_error);
+		card->spider_stats.rx_desc_error++;
+		dev_kfree_skb_irq(descr->skb);
+		goto refill;
+	}
+
 	/* ok, we've got a packet in descr */
 	result = spider_net_pass_skb_up(descr, card);
 refill:



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