netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: Fix use of wild pointer in mq_destroy() when qdisc

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:13:56 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:	wang.bo116@....com.cn, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, cui.yunfeng@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: Fix use of wild pointer in mq_destroy()
 when qdisc_alloc fail

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:49 AM, John Fastabend
<john.fastabend@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Patch looks fine, another way to fix this would be drop the
> mq_destroy() call in the error path. I'm not convinced one
> is any better than the other but maybe some other folks have
> opinions, it seems a bit wrong to call mq_destroy twice so in
> that sense it may be a bit nicer to drop the mq_destroy().

Dropping mq_destroy() in error path is indeed better,
because upper layer does cleanup intentionally.
Look at what other qdisc's do. :)
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