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* [PATCH net-next] net: Use consume_skb() to free gso segmented skb
@ 2013-04-29 23:02 Sridhar Samudrala
  2013-04-30  0:33 ` Eric Dumazet
  2013-04-30  4:18 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sridhar Samudrala @ 2013-04-29 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem; +Cc: netdev

Use consume_skb() to free the original skb that is successfully transmitted 
as gso segmented skbs so that it is not treated as a drop due to an error.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
---

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7c30dce..4040673 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2565,8 +2565,11 @@ gso:
 	} while (skb->next);
 
 out_kfree_gso_skb:
-	if (likely(skb->next == NULL))
+	if (likely(skb->next == NULL)) {
 		skb->destructor = DEV_GSO_CB(skb)->destructor;
+		consume_skb(skb);
+		return rc;
+	}
 out_kfree_skb:
 	kfree_skb(skb);
 out:

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