[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/3] net/pcap: fix transmit return count in error conditions

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Jul 25 16:43:15 CEST 2019


On 7/25/2019 1:04 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> When a packet cannot be transmitted, the driver is supposed to free this
> packet and report it as handled.
> This is to prevent the application from retrying to send the same packet
> and ending up in a liveloop since the driver will never manage to send
> it.
> 
> Fixes: 49a0a2ffd5db ("net/pcap: fix possible mbuf double freeing")
> Fixes: 6db141c91e1f ("pcap: support jumbo frames")
> CC: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>


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