netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] xsk: fix xsk_build_skb() error: 'skb' dereferencing possible ERR

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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:15:43 -0700
From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
To: Tirthendu Sarkar <tirthendu.sarkar@...el.com>
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bjorn@...nel.org, 
	magnus.karlsson@...el.com, maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com, 
	jonathan.lemon@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, 
	pabeni@...hat.com, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, martin.lau@...ux.dev, 
	dan.carpenter@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] xsk: fix xsk_build_skb() error: 'skb'
 dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

On 08/10, Tirthendu Sarkar wrote:
> xsk_build_skb_zerocopy() may return an error other than -EAGAIN and this
> is received as skb and used later in xsk_set_destructor_arg() and
> xsk_drop_skb() which must operate on a valid skb.
> 
> Add new parameter to xsk_build_skb_zerocopy() to explicitly return error
> and invoke xsk_set_destructor_arg() and xsk_drop_skb() only for a valid
> skb.

Maybe I'm missing something, but seems more complex that it should.
Why not do the following instead?

	} else if (!IS_ERR(skb)) {
  		xsk_set_destructor_arg(skb);
  		xsk_drop_skb(skb);
  		xskq_cons_release(xs->tx);
	}

Why do we need to separate the err?