Re: [bug report] r8169: fix offloaded tx checksum for small packets.

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Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> The patch b423e9ae49d7: "r8169: fix offloaded tx checksum for small
> packets." from May 18, 2013, leads to the following static checker
> warning:
> 
> 	drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c:7165 rtl8169_start_xmit()
> 	warn: passing freed memory 'skb'
[...]
>   7164          if (!tp->tso_csum(tp, skb, opts)) {
>   7165                  r8169_csum_workaround(tp, skb);
>                                                   ^^^
> But the caller is not expecting it to be freed.

r8169.c as of b423e9ae49d7 was fine.

The caller was introduced in e974604b453e87f8d864371786375d3d511fdf56.

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Ueimor
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