Hi Alex, On 16/09/14 13:18, Alexander Aring wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:02:47PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:53:57PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:47:59PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: >>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:39:11PM +0100, Martin Townsend wrote: >>>>> Hi Alex, >>>>> On 16/09/14 12:36, Alexander Aring wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:01:59PM +0100, Martin Townsend wrote: >>> ... >>>> and this also smells like side effects for me, because we have the >>>> local_skb which is sometimes freed inside of lowpan_process_data and >>>> returning skb. Then we don't know which we should kfree_skb now, the skb >>>> or local_skb now. Need to thing more about this to offer some solution, >>>> somebody agree here with me? >>>> >>> I mean sometimes we do this *skb = *new and skb is the parameter and before we >>> did a consume_skb(skb); then local_skb is already freed after this and >>> returning an errno and we make kfree_skb(local_skb) will crash something, >>> I suppose. >> I meant skb = new for the expand skb thing. And we can't never free >> kfree_skb(skb) here if (IS_ERR(skb) is true, but we can't decide if >> we need a kfree_skb(local_skb) or not, because we do a >> consume_skb($SKB_FROM_PARAMTER) in lowpan_process_data. >> > This all comes now in, because the ERR_PTR conversion. So we have two > choices: > > - drop the ERR_PTR convertsion and make old behaviour > - handle consume_skb/kfree_skb inside lowpan_process_data > > - Alex > How about a label for drop_local_skb? switch (skb->data[0] & 0xe0) { case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_IPHC: /* ipv6 datagram */ local_skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!local_skb) goto drop; local_skb = process_data(local_skb, dev, chan); if (IS_ERR(local_skb)) goto drop_local_skb; local_skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6); local_skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST; if (give_skb_to_upper(local_skb, dev) != NET_RX_SUCCESS) { kfree_skb(local_skb); goto drop; } dev->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len; dev->stats.rx_packets++; kfree_skb(skb); break; default: break; } } return NET_RX_SUCCESS; drop_local_skb: kfree_skb(local_skb); drop: dev->stats.rx_dropped++; kfree_skb(skb); return NET_RX_DROP; } - Martin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html