From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: fix error handling in tx_frame_nl
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:50:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1424771401.2192.4.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423143943-17526-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> (sfid-20150205_144723_163608_814CBCA8)
On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 08:45 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> Correct two problems with the error handling when using the netlink
> forwarding API: first, the netlink skb is never freed if nla_put()
> fails; and second, genlmsg_unicast() can fail if the netlink socket
> is full. In the latter case, the corresponding data skb is not counted
> as a drop and userspace programs like wmediumd will see TCP stalls
> due to lost packets.
Applied, thanks.
johannes
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2015-02-05 13:45 [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: fix error handling in tx_frame_nl Bob Copeland
2015-02-24 9:50 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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