Re: [PATCH stable 1/2] virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers

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On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:33:37AM -0800, Michael Dalton wrote:
> Hi Michael, quick question below:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                 if (i >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
> >                         pr_debug("%s: packet too long\n", skb->dev->name);
> >                         skb->dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
> > -                       return -EINVAL;
> > +                       return NULL;
> >                 }
> 
> Should this error handling path free the SKB before returning NULL?
> It seems like if we just return NULL we may leak memory.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mike

It's a device error, but
I agree, if we touch this code anyway there's no reason not to handle
this consistently and do goto toward end of file.
It's not a backport anymore though - this code is gone upstream,
so I'll make it a separate patch I think.

-- 
MST
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