linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] cxgb3 - fix skb->dev dereference

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Message-ID: <20070530170128.22789.3485.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 10:01:29 -0700
From:	divy@...lsio.com
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	swise@...ngridcomputing.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] cxgb3 - fix skb->dev dereference

From: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>

eth_type_trans() now sets skb->dev. 
References to skb->dev should happen after it is called.

Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
---

 drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c b/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c
index 3666586..eaa7dac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c
@@ -1690,8 +1690,8 @@ static void rx_eth(struct adapter *adap,
 	struct port_info *pi;
 
 	skb_pull(skb, sizeof(*p) + pad);
-	skb->dev->last_rx = jiffies;
 	skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, adap->port[p->iff]);
+	skb->dev->last_rx = jiffies;
 	pi = netdev_priv(skb->dev);
 	if (pi->rx_csum_offload && p->csum_valid && p->csum == 0xffff &&
 	    !p->fragment) {
-
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