From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] irda: fix a race in irlan_eth_xmit()
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:24:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282127083.2194.45.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
After skb is queued, its illegal to dereference it.
Cache skb->len into a temporary variable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c b/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c
index 9616c32..5bb8353 100644
--- a/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c
+++ b/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t irlan_eth_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
{
struct irlan_cb *self = netdev_priv(dev);
int ret;
+ unsigned int len;
/* skb headroom large enough to contain all IrDA-headers? */
if ((skb_headroom(skb) < self->max_header_size) || (skb_shared(skb))) {
@@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t irlan_eth_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+ len = skb->len;
/* Now queue the packet in the transport layer */
if (self->use_udata)
ret = irttp_udata_request(self->tsap_data, skb);
@@ -209,7 +211,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t irlan_eth_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
self->stats.tx_dropped++;
} else {
self->stats.tx_packets++;
- self->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
+ self->stats.tx_bytes += len;
}
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-18 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 10:24 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-08-19 7:42 ` [PATCH] irda: fix a race in irlan_eth_xmit() David Miller
2010-08-20 9:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-22 7:09 ` David Miller
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