pskb_may_pull may fail due to various reasons (e.g. alloc failure), but the skb isn't changed/dropped and processing continues so we shouldn't increment tx_dropped.
CC: Kyeyoon Park <kyeyo...@codeaurora.org> CC: Roopa Prabhu <ro...@cumulusnetworks.com> CC: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> CC: bri...@lists.linux-foundation.org Fixes: 958501163ddd ("bridge: Add support for IEEE 802.11 Proxy ARP") Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> --- net/bridge/br_input.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c index 8e486203d133..abe11f085479 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_input.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c @@ -80,13 +80,10 @@ static void br_do_proxy_arp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_bridge *br, BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->proxyarp_replied = false; - if (dev->flags & IFF_NOARP) + if ((dev->flags & IFF_NOARP) || + !pskb_may_pull(skb, arp_hdr_len(dev))) return; - if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, arp_hdr_len(dev))) { - dev->stats.tx_dropped++; - return; - } parp = arp_hdr(skb); if (parp->ar_pro != htons(ETH_P_IP) || -- 2.1.4