Re: [PATCH net-next v5] sctp: auth: discard auth_chunk when skb_clone fails

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:11:07 +0800 luoqing wrote:
> When processing AUTH + COOKIE-ECHO packets, if skb_clone() fails
> due to memory pressure, chunk->auth_chunk is NULL. The original
> code still sets chunk->auth = 1 and continues, leaving the
> COOKIE-ECHO to be processed without a valid auth_chunk for
> deferred verification.
> 
> Discard the AUTH chunk early via pdiscard when skb_clone() fails,
> so that the receive loop can continue processing remaining chunks
> in the inqueue instead of stalling the entire packet.

Please stop sending patches in reply to existing threads.