Re: [PATCH bluetooth-next] ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix memory leak

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Hi Alex,

> Looking at current situation of memory management in 6lowpan receive
> function I detected some invalid handling. After calling
> lowpan_invoke_rx_handlers we will do a kfree_skb and then NET_RX_DROP on
> error handling. We don't do this before, also on
> skb_share_check/skb_unshare which might manipulate the reference
> counters.
> 
> After running some 'grep -r "dev_add_pack" net/' to look how others
> packet-layer receive callbacks works I detected that every subsystem do
> a kfree_skb, then NET_RX_DROP without calling skb functions which
> might manipulate the skb reference counters. This is the reason why we
> should do the same here like all others subsystems. I didn't find any
> documentation how the packet-layer receive callbacks handle NET_RX_DROP
> return values either.
> 
> This patch will add a kfree_skb, then NET_RX_DROP handling for the
> "trivial checks", in case of skb_share_check/skb_unshare the kfree_skb
> call will be done inside these functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> References how other filesystem handle the callback:
> 
> [0] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/ipx/af_ipx.c#L1638
> [1] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/can/af_can.c#L709
> [2] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/phonet/af_phonet.c#L371
> 
> net/ieee802154/6lowpan/rx.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel

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