linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix use of skb after netif

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Message-ID: <20071210180309.GA9068@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:03:09 -0500
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
> (d30f53aeb31d453a5230f526bea592af07944564) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
> after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
> its argument.  The same problem occurs in some other drivers as well.
> 
> This was found using the following semantic match.
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Thanks, I'll forward this on.

			Jeff

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