netdev - [2/3] gro: Fix error handling on extremely short frags

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Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:47:18 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [2/3] gro: Fix error handling on extremely short frags

The second is a trivial error handling bug.

gro: Fix error handling on extremely short frags

When a frag is shorter than an Ethernet header, we'd return a
zeroed packet instead of aborting.  This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 4f69a2d..2fb3a00 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2514,6 +2514,7 @@ struct sk_buff *napi_fraginfo_skb(struct napi_struct *napi,

 	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN)) {
 		napi_reuse_skb(napi, skb);
+		skb = NULL;
 		goto out;
 	}

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