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Date:	Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:44:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Sathya.Perla@...lex.Com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: fix a race in be_xmit()

From: <Sathya.Perla@...lex.Com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 03:06:14 -0700

> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>
>>As soon as hardware is notified of a transmit, we no longer can assume
>>skb can be dereferenced, as TX completion might have freed the packet.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>
> 
> Good catch. Thanks!
> Acked-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>

Applied.
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