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    ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak · 0983d288
    Nick Child authored
    Below is a summary of how the driver stores a reference to an skb during
    transmit:
        tx_buff[free_map[consumer_index]]->skb = new_skb;
        free_map[consumer_index] = IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP;
        consumer_index ++;
    Where variable data looks like this:
        free_map == [4, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, 0, 3]
                                                   	consumer_index^
        tx_buff == [skb=null, skb=<ptr>, skb=<ptr>, skb=null, skb=null]
    
    The driver has checks to ensure that free_map[consumer_index] pointed to
    a valid index but there was no check to ensure that this index pointed
    to an unused/null skb address. So, if, by some chance, our free_map and
    tx_buff lists become out of sync then we were previously risking an
    skb memory leak. This could then cause tcp congestion control to stop
    sending packets, eventually leading to ETIMEDOUT.
    
    Therefore, add a conditional to ensure that the skb address is null. If
    not then warn the user (because this is still a bug that should be
    patched) and free the old pointer to prevent memleak/tcp problems.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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