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SubjectRE: [PATCH net] virtio_net: fix return value check in receive_mergeable()
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Wang [mailto:jasowang@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 3:10 PM
> To: wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: mst@redhat.com; caihe <caihe@huawei.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio_net: fix return value check in
> receive_mergeable()
>
>
>
> On 2017年12月04日 14:02, wangyunjian wrote:
> > From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> >
> > The function virtqueue_get_buf_ctx() could return NULL, the return
> > value 'buf' need to be checked with NULL, not value 'ctx'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > index 19a985e..559b215 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct
> net_device *dev,
> > int num_skb_frags;
> >
> > buf = virtqueue_get_buf_ctx(rq->vq, &len, &ctx);
> > - if (unlikely(!ctx)) {
> > + if (unlikely(!buf)) {
> > pr_debug("%s: rx error: %d buffers out of %d
> missing\n",
> > dev->name, num_buf,
> > virtio16_to_cpu(vi->vdev,
>
> Hi:
>
> The path looks good but I'm not sure this is a real fix since we add
> data and ctx simultaneously in virtqueue_add_inbuf_ctx().
>
> Any bad result you see without this patch?
>

Now no problem has been found yet, and I found it when reviewing the code.

Thanks

> Thanks
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