netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: mvpp2: only free the TSO header buffers when it was allocated

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Date:   Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:53:29 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com
Cc:     gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com,
        thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com,
        miquel.raynal@...e-electrons.com, nadavh@...vell.com,
        mw@...ihalf.com, stefanc@...vell.com, ymarkman@...vell.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: mvpp2: only free the TSO header
 buffers when it was allocated

From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>
Date: Thu,  7 Dec 2017 09:48:58 +0100

> This patch adds a check to only free the TSO header buffer when its
> allocation previously succeeded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>

No, please keep this as a failure to bring up.

Even if you emit a log message, it is completely unintuitive to
have netdev features change on the user just because of a memory
allocation failure.