Re: [PATCH] infinibad: fix memory leak in function send_flowc

[Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>]

On 6/16/2014 1:30 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> index 5e153f6..c518411 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> @@ -455,7 +455,10 @@ static void send_flowc(struct c4iw_ep *ep, struct sk_buff *skb)
>   	unsigned int flowclen = 80;
>   	struct fw_flowc_wr *flowc;
>   	int i;
>
> +	if (!skb) {
> +		kfree_skb();
> +		pr_warn(MOD "%s failed to allocate skb.\n", __func__);
> +	}
>   	skb = get_skb(skb, flowclen, GFP_KERNEL);

Oops, shouldn't the if statement be after the call to get_skb()?  :) 
(you're having a bad day ;))

>   	flowc = (struct fw_flowc_wr *)__skb_put(skb, flowclen);
>   

One more nit:  The comment is no longer correct.  It should be something 
like:

iw_cxgb4: in send_flowc(), handle a null skb return from get_skb()