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Message-ID: <539F1D5E.30505@opengridcomputing.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:37:50 -0500
From:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	Levente Kurusa <levex@...ux.com>, Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
CC:	swise@...lsio.com, roland@...nel.org, sean.hefty@...el.com,
	hal.rosenstock@...il.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4]Checks for Null value in function *get_skub

On 6/16/2014 10:45 AM, Levente Kurusa wrote:
> On 06/16/2014 05:37 PM, Nick Krause wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/
>> cm.c | 8 +++-----
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c 
>> b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
>> index f9477e2..2d56983 100644
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
>> @@ -340,15 +340,13 @@ static int status2errno(int status)
>>    */
>>   static struct sk_buff *get_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int len, gfp_t 
>> gfp)
>>   {
>>   if (skb && !skb_is_nonlinear(skb) && !skb_cloned(skb)) {
>>                  skb_trim(skb, 0);
>>                  skb_get(skb);
>>                  skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
>>          } else {
>> +               if (skb)
>> /* NULL is ignored */.
>> +                       kfree_skb (skb);
>>                  skb = alloc_skb(len, gfp);
>>          }
>>          t4_set_arp_err_handler(skb, NULL, NULL);
>
> This patch is severely whitespace damaged. Can you fix your MUA
> or try to use git-send-email?
>
> The changelog as well is of low quality. Maybe something like this:
>
> infiniband: cxgb4: fix memory skb memory leak
>
> ... would be better.
>
> Also, this fails the build, due to the extra dot character after
> the comment. :-(
>

Agreed.  Start over with this patch,  do what we asked, and make sure it 
passes checkpatch...


> Thanks,
>     Levente Kurusa.

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