linux-kernel - [V2 PATCH 3/9] macvtap: zerocopy: put page when fail to get all requested user pages

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Message-ID: <20120502034157.11782.66606.stgit@amd-6168-8-1.englab.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 May 2012 11:41:58 +0800
From:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, mst@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: [V2 PATCH 3/9] macvtap: zerocopy: put page when fail to get all
 requested user pages

When get_user_pages_fast() fails to get all requested pages, we could not use
kfree_skb() to free it as it has not been put in the skb fragments. So we need
to call put_page() instead.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/macvtap.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index 7cb2684..9ab182a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -531,9 +531,11 @@ static int zerocopy_sg_from_iovec(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct iovec *from,
 		size = ((base & ~PAGE_MASK) + len + ~PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		num_pages = get_user_pages_fast(base, size, 0, &page[i]);
 		if ((num_pages != size) ||
-		    (num_pages > MAX_SKB_FRAGS - skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags))
-			/* put_page is in skb free */
+		    (num_pages > MAX_SKB_FRAGS - skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags)) {
+			for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++)
+				put_page(page[i]);
 			return -EFAULT;
+		}
 		truesize = size * PAGE_SIZE;
 		skb->data_len += len;
 		skb->len += len;

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