On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 15:10 +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
kmalloc_reserve may fail to allocate memory inside skb_linearize,
which means skb_linearize's return value should not be ignored.
Following patch correct the uses of skb_linearize.
Compiled in x86_64
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <redacted>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c | 5 +++--
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c | 6 +++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 3 +--
drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c | 7 +++++--
drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c | 5 ++++-
net/tipc/link.c | 3 ++-
net/tipc/name_distr.c | 5 ++++-
7 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c
index 2b27d13..69372ea 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c
@@ -662,10 +662,11 @@ static int nes_netdev_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
nesnic->sq_head &= nesnic->sq_size-1;
}
} else {
- nesvnic->linearized_skbs++;
hoffset = skb_transport_header(skb) - skb->data;
nhoffset = skb_network_header(skb) - skb->data;
- skb_linearize(skb);
+ if (skb_linearize(skb))
+ return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
This would live lock.
Please drop the packet.
You probably should send one patch per driver, to ease code review and
acceptance.