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

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Message-Id: <20071210.171500.07031787.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:15:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia@...u.dk
Cc:	jdike@...aya.com, 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

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:02:31 +0100 (CET)

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> 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/)
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Patch applied, thanks.
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