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* bridge: Fix OOM crash in deliver_clone
@ 2010-06-16  4:02 Herbert Xu
  2010-06-16  4:43 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Herbert Xu @ 2010-06-16  4:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller, netdev; +Cc: Mark Wagner

Hi Dave:

bridge: Fix OOM crash in deliver_clone

The bridge multicast patches introduced an OOM crash in the forward
path, when deliver_clone fails to clone the skb.

This patch fixes it.

Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_forward.c b/net/bridge/br_forward.c
index 6e97711..cbfe87f 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_forward.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_forward.c
@@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ static int deliver_clone(const struct net_bridge_port *prev,
 			 void (*__packet_hook)(const struct net_bridge_port *p,
 					       struct sk_buff *skb))
 {
+	struct net_device *dev = BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->brdev;
+
 	skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!skb) {
-		struct net_device *dev = BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->brdev;
-
 		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}

Thanks,
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