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Message-Id: <1310649415-14787-5-git-send-email-amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:16:53 -0700
From: amit.salecha@...gic.com
To: davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, ameen.rahman@...gic.com,
anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com,
Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>,
Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Subject: [PATCH NEXT 4/6] qlcnic: fix race in skb->len access.
From: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>
As soon as skb is given to hardware, TX completion can free skb under us.
Therefore, we should update dev stats before kicking the device.
Signed-off-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
---
drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c b/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
index 916570d..006a693 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
@@ -2290,11 +2290,11 @@ qlcnic_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
if (adapter->mac_learn)
qlcnic_send_filter(adapter, tx_ring, first_desc, skb);
- qlcnic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
-
adapter->stats.txbytes += skb->len;
adapter->stats.xmitcalled++;
+ qlcnic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
+
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
unwind_buff:
--
1.7.3.3
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