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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 10:40:29 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Nick Child <nnac123@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, nick.child@....com, haren@...ux.ibm.com,
ricklind@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] ibmvnic: Fix TX skb leak after device reset
Hello:
This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:23:10 -0500 you wrote:
> These 2 patches focus on resolving a possible skb leak after
> a subset of the ibmvnic reset processes.
>
> Essentially, the driver maintains a free_map which contains indexes to a
> list of tracked skb's addresses on xmit. Due to a mistake during reset,
> the free_map did not accurately map to free indexes in the skb list.
> This resulted in a leak in skb because the index in free_map was blindly
> trusted to contain a NULL pointer. So this patchset addresses 2 issues:
> 1. We shouldn't blindly trust our free_map (lets not do this again)
> 2. We need to ensure that our free_map is accurate in the first place
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net,1/2] ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak
(no matching commit)
- [net,2/2] ibmvnic: Free any outstanding tx skbs during scrq reset
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/49bbeb5719c2
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