[PATCH net 3/4] NTB: ntb_transport: Fail TX enqueue when the QP link is down

Koichiro Den <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ntb,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Commit f195a1a6fe41 ("ntb: Drop packets when qp link is down") meant to
make ntb_transport_tx_enqueue() drop packets submitted while the QP link
is down, but it only returns 0 without consuming the packet. Zero means
success by this function's contract, so ntb_netdev reports NETDEV_TX_OK
and forgets the skb: nothing queued it, nothing frees it, and it leaks,
one skb for every transmit racing a link-down.

Return -ENOLINK instead, restoring the contract that a non-zero return
leaves the buffer owned by the caller. With the preceding patch,
ntb_netdev frees the skb on non-retryable enqueue failures and returns
NETDEV_TX_OK, so a packet racing with link-down is dropped without leaking
or entering a busy retry loop.

Fixes: f195a1a6fe41 ("ntb: Drop packets when qp link is down")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
index e92b96f4afad..4bdd81edcb87 100644
--- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
@@ -2353,9 +2353,8 @@ int ntb_transport_tx_enqueue(struct ntb_transport_qp *qp, void *cb, void *data,
 	if (!qp || !len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/* If the qp link is down already, just ignore. */
 	if (!qp->link_is_up)
-		return 0;
+		return -ENOLINK;
 
 	entry = ntb_list_rm(&qp->ntb_tx_free_q_lock, &qp->tx_free_q);
 	if (!entry) {
-- 
2.51.0
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