netdev - Re: [PATCH net] Fix net/hsr/hsr_device to check for freed skb buffer.

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:15:43 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Peter Heise <mail@...ise.de>, Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@...en.se>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Fix net/hsr/hsr_device to check for freed skb buffer.

Hello!

On 4/20/2017 10:28 AM, Peter Heise wrote:

> Fixed an unchecked call of skb_put_padto. Return value was ignored
> before, however, skb_put_padto frees skb buffer in case of error.
>
> As reported by Dan Carpenter on kernel-janitors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Heise <mail@...ise.de>
> ---
>  net/hsr/hsr_device.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_device.c b/net/hsr/hsr_device.c
> index c73160fb11e7..22d693f213be 100644
> --- a/net/hsr/hsr_device.c
> +++ b/net/hsr/hsr_device.c
> @@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ static void send_hsr_supervision_frame(struct hsr_port *master,
>  	hsr_sp = (typeof(hsr_sp)) skb_put(skb, sizeof(struct hsr_sup_payload));
>  	ether_addr_copy(hsr_sp->MacAddressA, master->dev->dev_addr);
>
> -	skb_put_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN + HSR_HLEN);
> +	if(skb_put_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN + HSR_HLEN))

    Need a space after *if*. Pleae run your patches thru scripts/checkpatch.pl 
before sending.

> +		return;
>
>  	hsr_forward_skb(skb, master);
>  	return;

MBR, Seregi