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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-06-07 22:59:59 +0000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-07-12 04:32:13 +0100
commit14be92503e6e67bce5c2c8259036b88f66cafc46 (patch)
tree438545c91d61a785804e907aa266d3aca2cf91d5
parent2d3de9b3abd0b5ad7a2641a092e804f922cef31d (diff)
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be2net: fix a race in be_xmit()
[ Upstream commit cd8f76c0a0c6fce0b2cf23c9bd0123f91453f46d ] 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c5
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 bf266a00c774..36c7c4eb7ec0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
@@ -696,6 +696,8 @@ 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;
@@ -713,8 +715,7 @@ 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);