From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, brouer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V3] qdisc: validate frames going through the direct_xmit path
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:17:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140903181722.02fca893@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409760507.26422.49.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:08:27 -0700 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 17:56 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
[...]
> > Also handle the error situation where dev_hard_start_xmit() could
> > return a skb list, and does not return dev_xmit_complete(rc) and
> > falls through to the kfree_skb(), in that situation it should
> > call kfree_skb_list().
>
> It seems that in this situation, we will return rc = -ENETDOWN,
> I do not think this is the right error code. Not sure if that matters...
Yes, I noticed, but we have always returned this, in these kind of err
situations, so I didn't want to change that behavior.
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-03 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-02 22:55 [PATCH] net: Validate frames going through the direct_xmit path Alexander Duyck
2014-09-02 23:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-03 2:46 ` Alexander Duyck
2014-09-03 4:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-03 11:57 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-03 11:48 ` [net-next PATCH] qdisc: validate " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-03 13:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-03 13:52 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-03 14:26 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-03 15:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-03 15:24 ` [net-next PATCH V2] " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-03 15:56 ` [net-next PATCH V3] " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-03 16:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-03 16:17 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2014-09-04 3:43 ` David Miller
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