Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Use consume_skb() to free gso segmented skb

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 16:02 -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> 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:
> 

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>