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Re: [PATCH v3 17/41] net: ieee802154: at86rf230: Call the complete helper when a transmission is over

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Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 19:34, Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 06:55, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ieee802154_xmit_complete() is the right helper to call when a
> > transmission is over. The fact that it completed or not is not really a
> > question, but drivers must tell the core that the completion is over,
> > even if it was canceled. Do not call ieee802154_wake_queue() manually,
> > in order to let full control of this task to the core.
> >
> > By using the complete helper we also avoid leacking the skb structure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> > index 583f835c317a..1941e1f3d2ef 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> > @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ at86rf230_async_error_recover_complete(void *context)
> >         if (ctx->free)
> >                 kfree(ctx);
> >
> > -       ieee802154_wake_queue(lp->hw);
> > +       ieee802154_xmit_complete(lp->hw, lp->tx_skb, false);
>
> also this lp->tx_skb can be a dangled pointer, after xmit_complete()
> we need to set it to NULL in a xmit_error() we can check on NULL
> before calling kfree_skb().
>

forget the NULL checking, it's already done by core. However in some
cases this is called with a dangled pointer on lp->tx_skb.

- Alex



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