On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 12:08:56PM +0530, Varka Bhadram wrote: > Alex, > > On 10/01/2014 12:03 PM, Alexander Aring wrote: > > >>checking the perticular return value specifically, this patch > >>remove these by directly including function within 'if' statement > >> > >>Signed-off-by: Varka Bhadram <varkab@xxxxxxx> > >>--- > >> net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c | 21 ++++++--------------- > >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) > >> > >>diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c > >>index 4413629..657940e 100644 > >>--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c > >>+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c > >>@@ -506,7 +506,6 @@ static int lowpan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, > >> struct packet_type *pt, struct net_device *orig_dev) > >> { > >> struct ieee802154_hdr hdr; > >>- int ret; > >> skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); > >> if (!skb) > >>@@ -529,31 +528,23 @@ static int lowpan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, > >> /* Pull off the 1-byte of 6lowpan header. */ > >> skb_pull(skb, 1); > >>- ret = lowpan_give_skb_to_devices(skb, NULL); > >>- if (ret == NET_RX_DROP) > >>+ if (lowpan_give_skb_to_devices(skb, NULL)) > >> goto drop; > >> } else { > >> switch (skb->data[0] & 0xe0) { > >> case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_IPHC: /* ipv6 datagram */ > >>- ret = process_data(skb, &hdr); > >>- if (ret == NET_RX_DROP) > >>+ if (process_data(skb, &hdr)) > >> goto drop; > >> break; > >> case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAG1: /* first fragment header */ > >>- ret = lowpan_frag_rcv(skb, LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAG1); > >>- if (ret == 1) { > >>- ret = process_data(skb, &hdr); > >>- if (ret == NET_RX_DROP) > >>+ if (lowpan_frag_rcv(skb, LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAG1)) > >>+ if (process_data(skb, &hdr)) > >> goto drop; > >>- } > >> break; > >> case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAGN: /* next fragments headers */ > >>- ret = lowpan_frag_rcv(skb, LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAGN); > >>- if (ret == 1) { > >>- ret = process_data(skb, &hdr); > >>- if (ret == NET_RX_DROP) > >>+ if (lowpan_frag_rcv(skb, LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAGN)) > >>+ if (process_data(skb, &hdr)) > >> goto drop; > >>- } > >> break; > >> default: > >> break; > >Mainly I would ack this, I detect no change. But this handling is > >currently complete broken and Martin already work on this. [0] > > > >I will not apply it. First fix the broken error handling, then you can > >send cleanups for everything in 6LoWPAN receive handling. > > > Where is error handling is broken...? everywhere at this position, see what Martin does and the review notes. There is a mixed return values of NET_RX_FOO and -EFOO and I am pretty sure, we double freeing sk_buff's when error occurs. Martin will make this behaviour easier and easy to understand. At the moment it's a mess. - Alex [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=141079021702990&w=2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html