Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 17/41] net: ieee802154: at86rf230: Call the complete helper when a transmission is over

From: Miquel Raynal <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 23:45:40 +0100

Hi Alexander,

[email-masked] wrote on Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:36:39 -0500:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 19:34, Alexander Aring <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 06:55, Miquel Raynal <[email-masked]> wrote:  
> > >
> > > ieee802154_xmit_complete() is the right helper to call when a
> > > transmission is over. The fact that it completed or not is not really a
> > > question, but drivers must tell the core that the completion is over,
> > > even if it was canceled. Do not call ieee802154_wake_queue() manually,
> > > in order to let full control of this task to the core.
> > >
> > > By using the complete helper we also avoid leacking the skb structure.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <[email-masked]>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> > > index 583f835c317a..1941e1f3d2ef 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> > > @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ at86rf230_async_error_recover_complete(void *context)
> > >         if (ctx->free)
> > >                 kfree(ctx);
> > >
> > > -       ieee802154_wake_queue(lp->hw);
> > > +       ieee802154_xmit_complete(lp->hw, lp->tx_skb, false);  
> >
> > also this lp->tx_skb can be a dangled pointer, after xmit_complete()
> > we need to set it to NULL in a xmit_error() we can check on NULL
> > before calling kfree_skb().

I've created a xmit_error() helper as suggested, which call
dev_kfree_skb_any() instead of *consume_skb*().

> 
> forget the NULL checking, it's already done by core.

Indeed, it is.

> However in some
> cases this is called with a dangled pointer on lp->tx_skb.

I've fixed that by setting it to NULL after the call to the xmit_error
helper.

> - Alex

Thanks,
Miquèl