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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2014-12-01 16:53:15 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-12-05 21:45:09 -0800
commitf51a5e82ea9aaf05106c00d976e772ca384a9199 (patch)
tree0a09f1cb7d362a7f5fc305a51215168ca211820c /drivers/net/macvtap.c
parent6db16718c964d6d7d26cfd03ae1e0e7f9c484862 (diff)
downloadlinux-f51a5e82ea9aaf05106c00d976e772ca384a9199.tar.gz
tun/macvtap: use consume_skb() instead of kfree_skb() when needed
To be more friendly with drop monitor, we should only call kfree_skb() when
the packets were dropped and use consume_skb() in other cases.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/macvtap.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macvtap.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index 22b4cf2fa108..ba1e5db2152e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -859,7 +859,10 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_do_read(struct macvtap_queue *q,
 	}
 	if (skb) {
 		ret = macvtap_put_user(q, skb, to);
-		kfree_skb(skb);
+		if (unlikely(ret < 0))
+			kfree_skb(skb);
+		else
+			consume_skb(skb);
 	}
 	if (!noblock)
 		finish_wait(sk_sleep(&q->sk), &wait);