netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3] net: bridge: Fix ethernet header pointer before check skb forwardable

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Message-ID: <20190116093312.5274776e@shemminger-XPS-13-9360>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:33:12 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     wangyunjian <wangyunjian@...wei.com>
Cc:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <xudingke@...wei.com>,
        <bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Nkolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net: bridge: Fix ethernet header pointer before
 check skb forwardable

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:04:21 +0800
wangyunjian <wangyunjian@...wei.com> wrote:

>  		if (unlikely(netpoll_tx_running(to->br->dev))) {
> +			skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
>  			if (!is_skb_forwardable(skb->dev, skb)) {
>  				kfree_skb(skb);
>  			} else {
> -				skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
>  				br_netpoll_send_skb(to, skb);
>  			}
>  			return;

The patch looks correct.

On minor style issue is that after moving skb_push out of the if statement,
both branches of the statement now contain a single line and therefore
the brackets are no longer necessary.  Suprised that checkpatch did
not complain about this.