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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;



             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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