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From: Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, daniel@iogearbox.net
Cc: vyasevich@gmail.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Fix error handling for switch statement case in the function sctp_cmd_interprete
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 19:34:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57044B6D.8050703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160405.192910.1219063056390496976.davem@davemloft.net>



On 2016-04-05 07:29 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:53:52 +0200
> 
>> On 04/05/2016 11:36 PM, Bastien Philbert wrote:
>>> This fixes error handling for the switch statement case
>>> SCTP_CMD_SEND_PKT by making the error value of the call
>>> to sctp_packet_transmit equal the variable error due to
>>> this function being able to fail with a error code. In
>>
>> What actual issue have you observed that you fix?
>>
>>> addition allow the call to sctp_ootb_pkt_free afterwards
>>> to free up the no longer in use sctp packet even if the
>>> call to the function sctp_packet_transmit fails in order
>>> to avoid a memory leak here for not freeing the sctp
>>
>> Not sure how this relates to your code?
> 
> Bastien, I'm seeing a clear negative pattern with the bug fixes
> you are submitting.
> 
> Just now you submitted the ICMP change which obviously was never
> tested because it tried to take the RTNL mutex in atomic context,
> and now this sctp thing.
> 
> If you don't start actually testing your changes and expalining
> clearly what the problem actually is, how you discovered it,
> and how you actually tested your patch, I will start completely
> ignoring your patch submissions.
> 
Ok sure I will be more careful with my future patches. Sorry about those 
two patches :(.
Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-05 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05 21:36 [PATCH] sctp: Fix error handling for switch statement case in the function sctp_cmd_interprete Bastien Philbert
2016-04-05 21:53 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-04-05 21:58   ` Bastien Philbert
2016-04-05 23:29   ` David Miller
2016-04-05 23:34     ` Bastien Philbert [this message]
2016-04-05 22:12 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2016-04-05 23:03   ` Bastien Philbert

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