linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: arc_emac: fix arc_emac

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:41:00 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     al.kochet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: arc_emac: fix arc_emac_rx() error paths

From: Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:49:48 +0300

>> And then you unmap it.  "addr" is the new DMA mapping, not the old one.
> 
> The old mapping should be unmapped here. It refer to old skb what contains already
> received packet. Because buffer doesn’t belong to EMAC anymore.
> That old mapping point to old skb buffer. And netif_receive_skb() will be
> called for old skb after that.

I misread the code, sorry.  I saw the dma_unmap_addr(xxx, addr) and just
considered 'addr' as the local variable.  It's not, it's in fact the
TX struct member.

Let me look at this some more. ;-)