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Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: fix error handling in tx_frame_nl

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On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 08:45 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> Correct two problems with the error handling when using the netlink
> forwarding API: first, the netlink skb is never freed if nla_put()
> fails; and second, genlmsg_unicast() can fail if the netlink socket
> is full.  In the latter case, the corresponding data skb is not counted
> as a drop and userspace programs like wmediumd will see TCP stalls
> due to lost packets.

Applied, thanks.

johannes

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