Ollie Wild wrote: > That said, I appreciate that the if-else condition doesn't seem quite > right. The problem is, the icmp_push_reply() routine is implicitly > using the queue as a success indicator. I put the > ip_flush_pending_frames() call inside the else block because I wanted to > guarantee that one of ip_push_pending_frames() and > ip_flush_pending_frames() is always called. Both will do proper cleanup. > > I'm open to suggestions if you think there's a cleaner way to implement > this. Checking the return value of ip_append_data seems cleaner to me. Patch attached. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy