From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Sathya.Perla@Emulex.Com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: fix a race in be_xmit()
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:44:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608.144439.2206391950312069751.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3367B80B08154D42A3B2BC708B5D41F647C6A0B900@EXMAIL.ad.emulex.com>
From: <Sathya.Perla@Emulex.Com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 03:06:14 -0700
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>>
>>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>
>
> Good catch. Thanks!
> Acked-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-08 8:59 [PATCH] be2net: fix a race in be_xmit() Eric Dumazet
2012-06-08 10:06 ` Sathya.Perla
2012-06-08 21:44 ` David Miller [this message]
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