Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] pppoatm: protect against freeing of vcc

From: chas williams - CONTRACTOR
Date: Wed Nov 28 2012 - 16:20:48 EST


On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:18:37 +0100
Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:28:43PM +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:
> > I think that we should add atm_pop() function that does that and fix all
> > drivers.
> >
>
> I'm sending a patch that implements that idea.
>
> Currently we need two arguments vcc and skb. However, we have reserved
> ATM_SKB(skb)->vcc in skb control block for keeping vcc
> and we can create single argument version vcc_pop(skb). In that case
> we need to move:
>
> ATM_SKB(skb)->vcc = vcc;
>
> from ATM drivers to functions that call atmdev_ops->send().

i dont like the vcc->pop() implementation and at one point i had the
crazy idea of using skb->destructors to handle it. however, i think it
would be necessary to clone the skb's so any existing destructor is
preserved.

> +#define vcc_pop(vcc, skb) vcc_pop_any(vcc, skb)
> +#define vcc_pop_irq(vcc, skb) vcc_pop_any(vcc, skb)

don't define these if you dont plan on using them anway.
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