netdev - Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] skbuff: fix error handling in pskb

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:59:46 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:	Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
	"open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] skbuff: fix error handling in
 pskb_copy()

Le mercredi 20 juillet 2011 à 11:51 +0300, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
> There are two problems:
> 1) "n" was allocated with alloc_skb() so we should free it with
>    kfree_skb() instead of regular kfree().
> 2) We return the freed pointer instead of NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

Thanks Dan

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>


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