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Message-ID: <1282134570.2194.53.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:29:30 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] netxen: fix a race in netxen_nic_get_stats()
Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 05:47 -0500, Amit Salecha a écrit :
> Same fix will be require for netxen_nic.
Indeed, here is netxen part
Thanks
[PATCH] netxen: fix a race in netxen_nic_get_stats()
Dont clear netdev->stats, it might give transient wrong values to
concurrent stat readers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index fd86e18..cb30df1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -2032,8 +2032,6 @@ struct net_device_stats *netxen_nic_get_stats(struct net_device *netdev)
struct netxen_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
struct net_device_stats *stats = &netdev->stats;
- memset(stats, 0, sizeof(*stats));
-
stats->rx_packets = adapter->stats.rx_pkts + adapter->stats.lro_pkts;
stats->tx_packets = adapter->stats.xmitfinished;
stats->rx_bytes = adapter->stats.rxbytes;
--
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