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From:   Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:34:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 17/41] net: ieee802154: at86rf230: Call the complete
 helper when a transmission is over
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
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Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 06:55, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> ieee802154_xmit_complete() is the right helper to call when a
> transmission is over. The fact that it completed or not is not really a
> question, but drivers must tell the core that the completion is over,
> even if it was canceled. Do not call ieee802154_wake_queue() manually,
> in order to let full control of this task to the core.
>
> By using the complete helper we also avoid leacking the skb structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> index 583f835c317a..1941e1f3d2ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.c
> @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ at86rf230_async_error_recover_complete(void *context)
>         if (ctx->free)
>                 kfree(ctx);
>
> -       ieee802154_wake_queue(lp->hw);
> +       ieee802154_xmit_complete(lp->hw, lp->tx_skb, false);

also this lp->tx_skb can be a dangled pointer, after xmit_complete()
we need to set it to NULL in a xmit_error() we can check on NULL
before calling kfree_skb().

- Alex