4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Falcon tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Upstream commit 4b9b0f01350500173f17e2b2e65beb4df4ef99c7 ]
If a RX buffer is returned to the client driver with an error, free the corresponding socket buffer before continuing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -994,6 +994,7 @@ restart_poll: netdev_err(netdev, "rx error %x\n", next->rx_comp.rc); /* free the entry */ next->rx_comp.first = 0; + dev_kfree_skb_any(rx_buff->skb); remove_buff_from_pool(adapter, rx_buff); break; }