linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Allocate receive queue initialized to zero

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Message-Id: <20130619.221928.858650471566973618.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lkundrak@...sk
Cc:	buytenh@...tstofly.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Allocate receive queue initialized to zero

From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:38 +0200

> Zero pointer in rx_skb is how respective rxq_deinit() finds out out that a skb
> slot is unallocated. If rxq_refill() fails (e.g. on OOM condition), subsequent
> teardown would result in an attempt to kfree() invalid pointers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>

Applied.
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