Re: [PATCHv4]Checks for Null value in function *get_skub

[Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>]

On 6/16/2014 10:25 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 8 +++-----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> index f9477e2..2d56983 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> @@ -340,15 +340,13 @@ static int status2errno(int status)
>    */
>   static struct sk_buff *get_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int len, gfp_t gfp)
>   {
>   if (skb && !skb_is_nonlinear(skb) && !skb_cloned(skb)) {
>                  skb_trim(skb, 0);
>                  skb_get(skb);
>                  skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
>   	} else {
> +		if (skb)
> +			kfree_skb (skb);
>   		skb = alloc_skb(len, gfp);
>   	}
>   	t4_set_arp_err_handler(skb, NULL, NULL);

Can you change the comment?  This patch is now fixing a potential skb 
leak.  Also, kfree_sb() will ignore NULL ptrs, so we could just always 
call it.  But I'd add a comment like /* NULL is ignored */.

Thanks,

Steve.