[PATCH] iseries_veth: Don't leak skbs in RX path
Hi Andrew, Jeff,
Under some strange circumstances the iseries_veth driver can leak skbs.
Fix is simply to call dev_kfree_skb() in the right place.
Fix up the comment as well.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
diff --git a/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c b/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c
index 1e869df..1edecb1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c
@@ -1264,13 +1264,18 @@
vlan = skb->data[9];
dev = veth_dev[vlan];
- if (! dev)
- /* Some earlier versions of the driver sent
- broadcasts down all connections, even to
- lpars that weren't on the relevant vlan.
- So ignore packets belonging to a vlan we're
- not on. */
+ if (! dev) {
+ /*
+ * Some earlier versions of the driver sent
+ * broadcasts down all connections, even to lpars
+ * that weren't on the relevant vlan. So ignore
+ * packets belonging to a vlan we're not on.
+ * We can also be here if we receive packets while
+ * the driver is going down, because then dev is NULL.
+ */
+ dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
continue;
+ }
port = (struct veth_port *)dev->priv;
dest = *((u64 *) skb->data) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF0000;