netdev - Re: [PATCH] yellowfin: Fix buffer underrun after dev_alloc

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Message-Id: <20090818.202149.245453512.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:21:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roel.kluin@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] yellowfin: Fix buffer underrun after dev_alloc_skb()
 failure

From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:50:34 +0200

> yellowfin_init_ring() needs to clean up if dev_alloc_skb() fails and
> should pass an error status up to the caller. This also prevents an
> buffer underrun if failure occurred in the first iteration.
> yellowfin_open() which calls yellowfin_init_ring() should free its
> requested irq upon failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks.
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