netdev - Re: [PATCH] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb

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Message-ID: <532A026E.5070609@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:47:42 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>
To:	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>, pshelar@...ira.com,
	dev@...nvswitch.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy
 and handle errors

On 03/19/2014 09:38 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> skb_zerocopy can copy elements of the frags array between skbs, but it doesn't
> orphan them. Also, it doesn't handle errors, so this patch takes care of that
> as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>
> ---

> +	if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(to, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
> +		skb_tx_error(to);
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>   	}

I think you should move this down to right before we iterate over the
frags.

Looks good otherwise.
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