netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipvlan: fix leak in ipvlan_rcv

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Message-Id: <20151117.144021.316419372483860209.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:40:21 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sd@...asysnail.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, maheshb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipvlan: fix leak in ipvlan_rcv_frame

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:34:26 +0100

> Pass a **skb to ipvlan_rcv_frame so that if skb_share_check returns a
> new skb, we actually use it during further processing.
> 
> It's safe to ignore the new skb in the ipvlan_xmit_* functions, because
> they call ipvlan_rcv_frame with local == true, so that dev_forward_skb
> is called and always takes ownership of the skb.
> 
> Fixes: 2ad7bf363841 ("ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.")
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

Applied.
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