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Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:44:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
cc:	Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>, 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: [PATCH] infiniband: Fixes memory leak in send_flowc

On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Steve Wise wrote:

> On 6/16/2014 12:49 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 5 ++++-
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> > b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> > index 5e153f6..867e664 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> > @@ -455,8 +455,11 @@ static void send_flowc(struct c4iw_ep *ep, struct
> > sk_buff *skb)
> >   	unsigned int flowclen = 80;
> >   	struct fw_flowc_wr *flowc;
> >   	int i;
> > -
> 
> Please add back the above blank line.
> 
> >   	skb = get_skb(skb, flowclen, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!skb) {
> > +		kfree_skb(skb);
> 
> Let's do a pr_warn() here;
> 
>         pr_warn(MOD "%s failed to allocate skb.\n", __func__);
> 

No need, if the allocation from skbuff_head_cache fails in the slab 
allocator, the page allocator will loop forever for orders less than 
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER or spew a page allocation failure warning with a 
stack trace that indicated the high order page allocation failed in this 
path.

> 
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> >   	flowc = (struct fw_flowc_wr *)__skb_put(skb, flowclen);
> >     	flowc->op_to_nparams = cpu_to_be32(FW_WR_OP(FW_FLOWC_WR) |
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