[PATCH] libertas: skb dereferenced after netif_rx
From: Florin Malita <hidden>
Date: 2007-05-16 21:01:46
Subsystem:
networking drivers (wireless), the rest · Maintainers:
Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds
In libertas_process_rxed_packet() and process_rxed_802_11_packet() the skb is dereferenced after being passed to netif_rx (called from libertas_upload_rx_packet). Spotted by Coverity (1658, 1659). Also, libertas_upload_rx_packet() unconditionally returns 0 so the error check is dead code - might as well take it out. Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <redacted> --- rx.c | 18 ++++-------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c
index d17924f..5e98055 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c@@ -269,15 +269,11 @@ int libertas_process_rxed_packet(wlan_private * priv, struct sk_buff *skb) wlan_compute_rssi(priv, p_rx_pd); lbs_pr_debug(1, "RX Data: size of actual packet = %d\n", skb->len); - if (libertas_upload_rx_packet(priv, skb)) { - lbs_pr_debug(1, "RX error: libertas_upload_rx_packet" - " returns failure\n"); - ret = -1; - goto done; - } priv->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len; priv->stats.rx_packets++; + libertas_upload_rx_packet(priv, skb); + ret = 0; done: LEAVE();
@@ -438,17 +434,11 @@ static int process_rxed_802_11_packet(wlan_private * priv, struct sk_buff *skb) wlan_compute_rssi(priv, prxpd); lbs_pr_debug(1, "RX Data: size of actual packet = %d\n", skb->len); - - if (libertas_upload_rx_packet(priv, skb)) { - lbs_pr_debug(1, "RX error: libertas_upload_rx_packet " - "returns failure\n"); - ret = -1; - goto done; - } - priv->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len; priv->stats.rx_packets++; + libertas_upload_rx_packet(priv, skb); + ret = 0; done: LEAVE();