netdev - Re: [PATCH] fm10k: fix memory leak

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Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:53:49 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
Cc:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fm10k: fix memory leak

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 14:24 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This was detected by Coverity.
> The function skb_cow_head leaves skb alone on failure, so caller needs
> to free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c	2015-11-17 13:33:40.032694657 -0800
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c	2015-11-17 14:13:03.086942495 -0800
> @@ -627,8 +627,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t fm10k_xmit_frame(stru
>  
>  		/* verify the skb head is not shared */
>  		err = skb_cow_head(skb, 0);
> -		if (err)
> +		if (err) {
> +			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
>  			return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> +		}
>  
>  		/* locate vlan header */
>  


kfree_skb() to be drop monitor friendly ?


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