netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] When timestamping is enabled, stmmac_tx_clean will call stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp to get tx TS. It's possible that skb is NULL because there are other network frames that use several descriptors. So we must return immediately in stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp if skb is NULL to avoid system crash.

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:54:33 +0800
From:	Bruce Liu <damuzi000@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	peppe.cavallaro@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] When timestamping is enabled, stmmac_tx_clean will
 call stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp to get tx TS. It's possible that skb is NULL
 because there are other network frames that use several descriptors. So we
 must return immediately in stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp if skb is NULL to avoid
 system crash.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:38:28PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 01/12/2014 10:39 AM, Bruce Liu wrote:
> >  When timestamping is enabled, stmmac_tx_clean will call stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp to get tx TS.
> >  It's possible that skb is NULL because there are other network frames that use several descriptors.
> >  So we must return immediately in stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp if skb is NULL to avoid system crash.
> >
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Bruce Liu <damuzi000@...il.com>
> 
> Please see Documentation/SubmittingPatches +489
> 
> You subject line is way too long and should just be something like:
> 
> [PATCH net-next] net: stmmac: fix NULL pointer dereference in stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp
> 
> Don't indent your actual commit message with whitespaces as prefix,
> and do a line break after around 70 chars.
> 
> Btw, I mentioned net-next in the subject since merge window will
> open soon anyway.
> 

Thanks, and I'll resend the patch.

Bruce.
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