From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar: fix potential sk_wmem_alloc imbalance Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120709.152827.1547447409352502785.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1341524713.3265.41.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, manfred.rudigier@omicron.at, claudiu.manoil@freescale.com, b06378@freescale.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, afleming@freescale.com To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:59840 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752246Ab2GIW22 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2012 18:28:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1341524713.3265.41.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:45:13 +0200 > From: Eric Dumazet > > commit db83d136d7f753 (gianfar: Fix missing sock reference when > processing TX time stamps) added a potential sk_wmem_alloc imbalance > > If the new skb has a different truesize than old one, we can get a > negative sk_wmem_alloc once new skb is orphaned at TX completion. > > Now we no longer early orphan skbs in dev_hard_start_xmit(), this > probably can lead to fatal bugs. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet > Cc: Manfred Rudigier > Cc: Claudiu Manoil > Cc: Jiajun Wu > Cc: Paul Gortmaker > Cc: Andy Fleming Now that this has been tested by Paul, I've applied it. Thanks.