[PATCH] de4x5.c: don't reference skb after passing it to netif_rx

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:33:59 -0300


Hi,

I've just read davem's post at netdev about the brokeness of
referencing skbs after passing it to netif_rx, so please consider applying
this patch. Ah, this was just added to the Janitor's TODO list at
http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~acme/TODO and I'm doing a quick audit in the
net drivers searching for this, maybe some more patches will follow.

- Arnaldo

--- linux-2.4.2/drivers/net/de4x5.c Fri Feb 9 17:40:02 2001
+++ linux-2.4.2.acme/drivers/net/de4x5.c Mon Feb 26 22:02:50 2001
@@ -1731,13 +1731,13 @@

/* Push up the protocol stack */
skb->protocol=eth_type_trans(skb,dev);
+ de4x5_local_stats(dev, skb->data, pkt_len);
netif_rx(skb);

/* Update stats */
dev->last_rx = jiffies;
lp->stats.rx_packets++;
lp->stats.rx_bytes += pkt_len;
- de4x5_local_stats(dev, skb->data, pkt_len);
}
}

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