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netxen: fix race in skb->len access

Message ID 1308551175.3539.133.camel@edumazet-laptop
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet June 20, 2011, 6:26 a.m. UTC
As soon as skb is given to hardware, TX completion can free skb under
us.
Therefore, we should update dev stats before kicking the device.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
---
 drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)



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David Miller June 20, 2011, 8:05 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:26:15 +0200

> As soon as skb is given to hardware, TX completion can free skb under
> us.
> Therefore, we should update dev stats before kicking the device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index b644383..c0788a3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -1965,11 +1965,11 @@  netxen_nic_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 
 	netxen_tso_check(netdev, tx_ring, first_desc, skb);
 
-	netxen_nic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
-
 	adapter->stats.txbytes += skb->len;
 	adapter->stats.xmitcalled++;
 
+	netxen_nic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
+
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 
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