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| author |   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2012-06-07 22:59:59 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-06-08 14:44:19 -0700 |
| commit | cd8f76c0a0c6fce0b2cf23c9bd0123f91453f46d (patch) | |
| tree | 407d86c633217baa0e1f5c5d6980009ad3b84abf /drivers/net/ethernet | |
| parent | l2tp: fix a race in l2tp_ip_sendmsg() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-cd8f76c0a0c6fce0b2cf23c9bd0123f91453f46d.tar.xz linux-dev-cd8f76c0a0c6fce0b2cf23c9bd0123f91453f46d.zip | |
be2net: fix a race in be_xmit()
As soon as hardware is notified of a transmit, we no longer can assume
skb can be dereferenced, as TX completion might have freed the packet.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c index 08efd308d78a..fdb50cec6b51 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c @@ -736,6 +736,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t be_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, copied = make_tx_wrbs(adapter, txq, skb, wrb_cnt, dummy_wrb); if (copied) { + int gso_segs = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs; + /* record the sent skb in the sent_skb table */ BUG_ON(txo->sent_skb_list[start]); txo->sent_skb_list[start] = skb; @@ -753,8 +755,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t be_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, be_txq_notify(adapter, txq->id, wrb_cnt); - be_tx_stats_update(txo, wrb_cnt, copied, - skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs, stopped); + be_tx_stats_update(txo, wrb_cnt, copied, gso_segs, stopped); } else { txq->head = start; dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); |