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netxen: fix a race in netxen_nic_get_stats()

Message ID 1282134570.2194.53.camel@edumazet-laptop
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet Aug. 18, 2010, 12:29 p.m. UTC 
Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 05:47 -0500, Amit Salecha a écrit :
> Same fix will be require for netxen_nic.

Indeed, here is netxen part

Thanks

[PATCH] netxen: fix a race in netxen_nic_get_stats()

Dont clear netdev->stats, it might give transient wrong values to
concurrent stat readers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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 drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)



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David Miller Aug. 19, 2010, 7:44 a.m. UTC | #1 
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:29:30 +0200

> Dont clear netdev->stats, it might give transient wrong values to
> concurrent stat readers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Also applied, thanks Eric.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index fd86e18..cb30df1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -2032,8 +2032,6 @@  struct net_device_stats *netxen_nic_get_stats(struct net_device *netdev)
 	struct netxen_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	struct net_device_stats *stats = &netdev->stats;
 
-	memset(stats, 0, sizeof(*stats));
-
 	stats->rx_packets = adapter->stats.rx_pkts + adapter->stats.lro_pkts;
 	stats->tx_packets = adapter->stats.xmitfinished;
 	stats->rx_bytes = adapter->stats.rxbytes;