Re: [RFC bluetooth-next 1/2] bluetooth: 6lowpan: avoid endless loop

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Hi Alex,

> When -EAGAIN as return value for receive handling will do a retry of
> parsing I can trigger a endless loop when iphc decompression e.g.
> returns an errno because some missing function "-ENOTSUPP" or something
> else. Somebody from outside can trigger an endless loop when sending a
> an IPHC header which triggers this behaviour.
> 
> NOTE: This really depends only if -EAGAIN means "try again to call the
> receive handler with the skb". Sometimes we also drop (and kfree) the
> skb, I think something is broken there... depends on the error branch.
> When receiving failed simple free skb and return errno (which is not
> -EAGAIN).

I am lost on this comment, you need to explain this more and might actually want to put a comment in the code on this.

Regards

Marcel

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