Re: [PATCH -next] net: macb: fix missing unlock on error in macb_start_xmit()

[Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>]

Le 12/09/2016 à 19:40, Helmut Buchsbaum a écrit :
> On 09/10/2016 01:17 PM, Wei Yongjun wrote:
>> From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
>>
>> Fix missing unlock before return from function macb_start_xmit()
>> in the error handling case.
>>
>> Fixes: 007e4ba3ee13 ("net: macb: initialize checksum when using
>> checksum offloading")
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
>> index 0294b6a..63144bb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
>> @@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ static int macb_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>
>>  	if (macb_clear_csum(skb)) {
>>  		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
>> -		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>> +		goto unlock;
>>  	}
>>
>>  	/* Map socket buffer for DMA transfer */
>>
> You are definitely right. Sorry I missed that obvious point and for 
> causing any inconveniences.
> 
> BTW, I see there are obviously quite a few users of MACB 
> implementations. I'm just curious if anybody else ever encountered the 
> checksum problem or if this a matter of Zynq implementation only.

I've just verified that we are affected by this issue as well on sama5d2
(Microchip / Atmel cortex-A5 MPUs).

Thanks for the fix,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre