Re: [PATCH] sgi-xp: fix a use after free

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

Thank you Eric.

David, if you want me to submit this through Andrew Morton, I can do
that instead.


Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:52:36AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Its illegal to dereference skb after dev_kfree_skb(skb)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> CC: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
> ---
> David, I am not sure Robin is active these days, maybe you can take this
> patch, since its clearly network related ?
> 
>  drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpnet.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpnet.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpnet.c
> index ee5109a..42f0673 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpnet.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpnet.c
> @@ -495,14 +495,14 @@ xpnet_dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	dev->stats.tx_packets++;
> +	dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
> +
>  	if (atomic_dec_return(&queued_msg->use_count) == 0) {
>  		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
>  		kfree(queued_msg);
>  	}
>  
> -	dev->stats.tx_packets++;
> -	dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
> -
>  	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>  }
>  
>