Fix CID 102619 in the Coverity report on Linux.
efx_end_loopback() iterates over an array of skb pointers of which
some may be null (if efx_begin_loopback() failed). It should not use
dev_kfree_skb_irq(), which requires non-null pointers. In practice
this is safe because it does not run in interrupt context and
therefore always ends up calling dev_kfree_skb(), which does allow
null pointers. But we should make that explicit.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c
index de4c006..ccc428f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static int efx_end_loopback(struct efx_tx_queue *tx_queue,
skb = state->skbs[i];
if (skb && !skb_shared(skb))
++tx_done;
- dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
}
netif_tx_unlock_bh(efx->net_dev);
--
1.7.7.6
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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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