Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA: release allocated skb

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Thu Oct 03 2019 - 04:20:53 EST


On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:35:06PM -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Yes, you are right if the skb release is
> moved under err4 label it will cause a double free as
> c4iw_ref_send_wait will release skb in case of error.
> So, in order to avoid leaking skb in case of c4iw_bar2_addrs failure,
> the kfree(skb) could be placed under the error check like the way
> patch v1 did. Do you see any mistake in version 1?
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1128510/

No, it is not enough.
c4iw_ref_send_wait() ->
c4iw_wait_for_reply() ->
return wr_waitp->ret; <--- can be -EIO

Thanks