netdev - Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: Reset nr

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Date:   Thu, 08 Aug 2019 18:02:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ross.lagerwall@...rix.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        paul.durrant@...rix.com, wei.liu@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: Reset nr_frags before freeing skb

From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@...rix.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 16:34:34 +0100

> At this point nr_frags has been incremented but the frag does not yet
> have a page assigned so freeing the skb results in a crash. Reset
> nr_frags before freeing the skb to prevent this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@...rix.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.