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authorKY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>2014-09-28 22:16:43 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-10-15 08:36:42 +0200
commit60fa7e97bfdd525fb879a4899dc2ed98ee658c76 (patch)
treea359eaefac56c0aad39cf851ac2f14dc36c1cd95
parent48a6420f1f9aebb64b83228c3185d0f8ec14a8fb (diff)
hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_start_xmit()
[ Upstream commit dedb845ded56ded1c62f5398a94ffa8615d4592d ] After the packet is successfully sent, we should not touch the skb as it may have been freed. This patch is based on the work done by Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>. In this version of the patch I have fixed issues pointed out by David. David, please queue this up for stable. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index d6fce9750b95..3c1c33ceffba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
struct hv_netvsc_packet *packet;
int ret;
unsigned int i, num_pages, npg_data;
+ u32 skb_length = skb->len;
/* Add multipages for skb->data and additional 2 for RNDIS */
npg_data = (((unsigned long)skb->data + skb_headlen(skb) - 1)
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
ret = rndis_filter_send(net_device_ctx->device_ctx,
packet);
if (ret == 0) {
- net->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
+ net->stats.tx_bytes += skb_length;
net->stats.tx_packets++;
} else {
kfree(packet);