netdev - Re: [Patch net] llc: properly handle dev_queue

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Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:57:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, noamr@...ondsecurity.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net] llc: properly handle dev_queue_xmit() return value

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:08:33 -0700

> llc_conn_send_pdu() pushes the skb into write queue and
> calls llc_conn_send_pdus() to flush them out. However, the
> status of dev_queue_xmit() is not returned to caller,
> in this case, llc_conn_state_process().
> 
> llc_conn_state_process() needs hold the skb no matter
> success or failure, because it still uses it after that,
> therefore we should hold skb before dev_queue_xmit() when
> that skb is the one being processed by llc_conn_state_process().
> 
> For other callers, they can just pass NULL and ignore
> the return value as they are.
> 
> Reported-by: Noam Rathaus <noamr@...ondsecurity.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Cong.