[PATCH] hp100: fix an skb->len race
From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2011-06-19 22:43:41
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
As soon as skb is given to hardware and spinlock released, TX completion can free skb under us. Therefore, we should update netdev stats before spinlock release. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted> --- drivers/net/hp100.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hp100.c b/drivers/net/hp100.c
index 8e10d2f..c3ecb11 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hp100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hp100.c@@ -1580,12 +1580,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t hp100_start_xmit_bm(struct sk_buff *skb, hp100_outl(ringptr->pdl_paddr, TX_PDA_L); /* Low Prio. Queue */ lp->txrcommit++; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags); - /* Update statistics */ dev->stats.tx_packets++; dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags); + return NETDEV_TX_OK; drop: