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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-06-07 22:59:59 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-06-08 14:44:19 -0700
commitcd8f76c0a0c6fce0b2cf23c9bd0123f91453f46d (patch)
tree407d86c633217baa0e1f5c5d6980009ad3b84abf
parent4399a4df98a63e30fd16e9d0cecc46ea92269e8f (diff)
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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>
-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 08efd30..fdb50ce 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);
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