Re: [PATCH net v3] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Apr 12 2016 - 12:23:55 EST


On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 08:45 +0200, Lars Persson wrote:
> A failure in validate_xmit_skb_list() triggered an unconditional call
> to dev_requeue_skb with skb=NULL. This slowly grows the queue
> discipline's qlen count until all traffic through the queue stops.

>
> Fixes: 55a93b3ea780 ("qdisc: validate skb without holding lock")
> Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@xxxxxxxx>
> ---


Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks !