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From: "Sørensen, Stefan" <Stefan.Sorensen@spectralink.com>
To: "dan.carpenter@oracle.com" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"richardcochran@gmail.com" <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"f.fainelli@gmail.com" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"andrew@lunn.ch" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dp83640: don't recieve time stamps twice
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:16:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1492593414.3108.1.camel@spectralink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170418191426.GA17838@mwanda>

On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 22:14 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This patch is prompted by a static checker warning about a potential
> use after free.  The concern is that netif_rx_ni() can free "skb" and
> we
> call it twice.
> 
> When I look at the commit that added this, it looks like some stray
> lines were added accidentally.  It doesn't make sense to me that we
> would recieve the same data two times.  I asked the author but never
> recieved a response.
> 
> I can't test this code, but I'm pretty sure my patch is correct.

Sorry for not getting back earlier, I have swamped with other stuff.

You are correct that these lines was added accidentally.

Acked-by: Stefan Sørensen <stefan.sorensen@spectralink.com>

> 
> Fixes: 4b063258ab93 ("dp83640: Delay scheduled work.")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c b/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c
> index e2460a57e4b1..ed0d10f54f26 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c
> @@ -1438,8 +1438,6 @@ static bool dp83640_rxtstamp(struct phy_device
> *phydev,
>  		skb_info->tmo = jiffies + SKB_TIMESTAMP_TIMEOUT;
>  		skb_queue_tail(&dp83640->rx_queue, skb);
>  		schedule_delayed_work(&dp83640->ts_work,
> SKB_TIMESTAMP_TIMEOUT);
> -	} else {
> -		netif_rx_ni(skb);
>  	}
>  
>  	return true;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-19  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-18 19:14 [PATCH] dp83640: don't recieve time stamps twice Dan Carpenter
2017-04-18 20:19 ` Richard Cochran
2017-04-19  9:16 ` Sørensen, Stefan [this message]
2017-04-19 10:31   ` Richard Cochran
2017-04-19 10:53     ` Dan Carpenter
2017-04-19 11:28     ` Sørensen, Stefan
2017-04-19 11:54       ` Richard Cochran
2017-04-20 20:02     ` David Miller
2017-04-20 21:30       ` Richard Cochran

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