Re: netfront for review

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu May 03 2007 - 10:28:37 EST


Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Gerd, in change 11196:b85da7cd9ea5 "front: Fix rx buffer leak when
>> tearing down an interface." you added a call to
>> "add_id_to_freelist(np->rx_skbs, id);". However, rx_skbs doesn't have
>> an extra entry for the list head, and there's never any corresponding
>> get_id_from_freelist(np->rx_skbs). What should it be?
>
> The function has an effect in page flipping mode only. It walks the
> whole list of rx skbufs (id is the loop variable ...), checks whenever
> they are handed out to the frontend driver to fill in packet data and
> not returned yet, and if so reclaim them ...

Yes, but why use add_id_to_freelist? rx_skbs are not being used on a
freelist anywhere else. It just means the rx_skb array gets filled with
small integers, but the rest of the code assumes they're either NULL or
an skb pointer.

J
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