netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/8] net: Add frag_list support to skb

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Date:	Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:43:05 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] net: Add frag_list support to skb_segment

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:38:55AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> Yup, I meant below 'goto err' when we failed to clone skb.
> 
> > > > +		if (pos < offset + len) {
> > > > +			struct sk_buff *fskb2 = fskb;
> > > > +
> > > > +			BUG_ON(pos + fskb->len != offset + len);
> > > > +
> > > > +			pos += fskb->len;
> > > > +			fskb = fskb->next;
> > > > +
> > > > +			if (fskb2->next) {
> > > > +				fskb2 = skb_clone(fskb2, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > > +				if (!fskb2)
> > > > +					goto err;
> > > > +			} else
> > > > +				skb_get(fskb2);
> > > > +
> > > > +			skb_shinfo(nskb)->frag_list = fskb2;

This isn't a problem.  fskb2 is still on the original frag_list so
we don't need to free it if skb_clone fails.

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