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Re: iwlwifi: bug in iwl_tx_skb

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On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 14:20 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When iwl_txq_update_write_ptr fails, you have a huge problem: the skb is
> > linked on the queue, the write_ptr has been incremented, but you pretend
> > you can just free it.
> 
> It's not freed it's should be picket in the next round. We should
> really return success to mac80211 in case

No, it _is_ freed, by the caller, because you always return success to
mac80211 anyway and kfree the skb before. And if you didn't return
success it'd be just as wrong.

johannes

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