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Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:30:59 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Maggie Mae Roxas <maggie.mae.roxas@...il.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: mvneta: fix race condition in mvneta_tx()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

mvneta_tx() dereferences skb to get skb->len too late,
as hardware might have completed the transmit and TX completion
could have freed the skb from another cpu.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
index ccc3ce2e8c8c7c8d929b2ff5e271bf62948c7012..34f58150d693b4215b58285c1dcbb4b16cc03697 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -1721,6 +1721,7 @@ static int mvneta_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	u16 txq_id = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
 	struct mvneta_tx_queue *txq = &pp->txqs[txq_id];
 	struct mvneta_tx_desc *tx_desc;
+	int len = skb->len;
 	int frags = 0;
 	u32 tx_cmd;
 
@@ -1788,7 +1789,7 @@ out:
 
 		u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->syncp);
 		stats->tx_packets++;
-		stats->tx_bytes  += skb->len;
+		stats->tx_bytes  += len;
 		u64_stats_update_end(&stats->syncp);
 	} else {
 		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;


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