From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sky2: Allocate initial skbs in sky2_alloc_buffers
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100127090016.05138a5d@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B605648.7020705@ring3k.org>
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:05:44 +0900
Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org> wrote:
> Allocating everything in one place means there's a single point
> of failure in sky2_up, and sky2_rx_start can no longer fail.
>
> This also fixes a memory leak in the case that sky2_rx_start
> fails in the middle of allocating skbs, since any allocated
> skbs will not be free'd in sky2_up's failure path.
I may incorporate the cleanup, but there is no leak.
if rx_start fails, it already called rx_clean.
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2010-01-27 15:05 [PATCH 2/3] sky2: Allocate initial skbs in sky2_alloc_buffers Mike McCormack
2010-01-27 17:00 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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