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From: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Dmitry Petukhov <dmgenp@gmail•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org, acme@ghostprotocols•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc4] fix double call of kfree_skb in net/llc/llc_sap.c
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 15:31:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483BB8EF.4090904@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84ee89da0805270009xe92f7e1l959fa9161c976db2@mail.gmail.com>

Dmitry Petukhov wrote:
> in function llc_sap_state_proces there was lack of return statement,
> and finalizing kfree_skb might be called after skb was already freed
> or queued to the user.
>
> following patch adds the necessary return.
>
>   

Not correct, since kfree_skb(skb) is used after skb_get(skb).

First, it used skb_get inc the users counter, and then, kfree_skb will 
dec the users count, not do the real free.

> ---
>
> --- a/net/llc/llc_sap.c 2008-05-27 12:52:01.000000000 +0600
> +++ b/net/llc/llc_sap.c 2008-05-27 12:52:37.000000000 +0600
> @@ -223,6 +223,7 @@
>                         if (sock_queue_rcv_skb(skb->sk, skb))
>                                 kfree_skb(skb);
>                 }
> +               return;
>         }
>         kfree_skb(skb);
>  }
>   


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-27  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27  7:09 [PATCH 2.6.26-rc4] fix double call of kfree_skb in net/llc/llc_sap.c Dmitry Petukhov
2008-05-27  7:31 ` Wei Yongjun [this message]
2008-05-27  8:00   ` Dmitry Petukhov
     [not found]   ` <84ee89da0805270047v1c76b4f3k5768fe853f2cea1d@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <483BC1B0.2090600@cn.fujitsu.com>
     [not found]       ` <84ee89da0805270235t7ae75356la2ffbb5244de2f74@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-28 10:59         ` Dmitry Petukhov
2008-05-28 20:16           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-05-29  8:51             ` Dmitry Petukhov
2008-05-29 10:45               ` David Miller
2008-05-29 13:44                 ` [PATCH][LLC]: Fix double accounting of received packets Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-05-30  9:57                   ` David Miller

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