From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Eric Dumazet , Alexey Brodkin , Richard Cochran , "David S. Miller" , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 3.11 002/233] arc_emac: fix potential use after free Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 11:43:41 +0000 Message-Id: <1391773652-25214-3-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1391773652-25214-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1391773652-25214-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.11.10.4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet commit 37ec274e9713eafc2ba6c4471420f06cb8f68ecf upstream. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet skb_tx_timestamp(skb) should be called _before_ TX completion has a chance to trigger, otherwise it is too late and we access freed memory. Fixes: e4f2379db6c6 ("ethernet/arc/arc_emac - Add new driver") From: Eric Dumazet Cc: Alexey Brodkin Cc: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c index 9e16014..4fc96d6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c @@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ static int arc_emac_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev) /* Make sure pointer to data buffer is set */ wmb(); + skb_tx_timestamp(skb); + *info = cpu_to_le32(FOR_EMAC | FIRST_OR_LAST_MASK | len); /* Increment index to point to the next BD */ @@ -579,8 +581,6 @@ static int arc_emac_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev) arc_reg_set(priv, R_STATUS, TXPL_MASK); - skb_tx_timestamp(skb); - return NETDEV_TX_OK; } -- 1.8.3.2