netdev - Re: [PATCH stable 1/2] virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers

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Date:	Wed, 25 Dec 2013 10:33:37 -0800
From:	Michael Dalton <mwdalton@...gle.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	lf-virt <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 1/2] virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers

Hi Michael, quick question below:

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
>                 if (i >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
>                         pr_debug("%s: packet too long\n", skb->dev->name);
>                         skb->dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
> -                       return -EINVAL;
> +                       return NULL;
>                 }

Should this error handling path free the SKB before returning NULL?
It seems like if we just return NULL we may leak memory.

Best,

Mike
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