netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] net: neigh: use dev_kfree_skb_irq instead of kfree

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Message-ID: <20220818093224.2539d0bc@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:32:24 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>
Cc:     "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...tuozzo.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] net: neigh: use dev_kfree_skb_irq instead of
 kfree_skb()

Please put [PATCH net] as the tag for v2, this is a fix, not -next
material.

On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:00:13 +0200 Denis V. Lunev wrote:
>          unsigned long flags;
>          struct sk_buff *skb;
> +       struct sk_buff_head tmp;

reverse xmas tree, so tmp should be declared before the shorter lines

> +       skb_queue_head_init(&tmp);
> 
>          spin_lock_irqsave(&list->lock, flags);
>          skb = skb_peek(list);
> @@ -318,12 +321,16 @@ static void pneigh_queue_purge(struct sk_buff_head 
> *list, struct net *net)
>                  struct sk_buff *skb_next = skb_peek_next(skb, list);

while at it let's add an empty line here

>                  if (net == NULL || net == dev_net(skb->dev)) {
>                          __skb_unlink(skb, list);
> -                       dev_put(skb->dev);
> -                       kfree_skb(skb);
> +                       __skb_queue_tail(&tmp, skb);
>                  }
>                  skb = skb_next;
>          } while (skb != NULL);
>          spin_unlock_irqrestore(&list->lock, flags);
> +
> +       while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&tmp)) != NULL) {

No need to compare pointers to NULL

> +               dev_put(skb->dev);
> +               kfree_skb(skb);
> +       }