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Re: [PATCH] mac80211-hwsim: Don't enqueue pkts that do not want txstatus.

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On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 10:25 -0800, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Otherwise, skb is not cleaned up until there is some timeout
> and the tx-queue quickly becomes overly full.

> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
> @@ -928,10 +928,14 @@ static void mac80211_hwsim_tx_frame_nl(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
>  	genlmsg_end(skb, msg_head);
>  	genlmsg_unicast(&init_net, skb, dst_portid);
>  
> -	/* Enqueue the packet */
> -	skb_queue_tail(&data->pending, my_skb);
>  	data->tx_pkts++;
>  	data->tx_bytes += my_skb->len;
> +
> +	/* Enqueue the packet if we are expecting a tx-status response */
> +	if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS)
> +		skb_queue_tail(&data->pending, my_skb);
> +	else
> +		ieee80211_free_txskb(hw, my_skb);

This doesn't really seem right - essentially it means that whatever you
just gave to userspace is now completely useless?

It seems skb_orphan() could/should be put here.

johannes

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