From 9ffad80a9c65d7c2ab5ad6cb8b4b0559b9ed8b8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:02:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] drivers: net: xgene: fix possible use after free Once TX has been enabled on a NIC, it is illegal to access skb, as this skb might have been freed by another cpu, from TX completion handler. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Mark Rutland Tested-by: Mark Rutland Cc: Iyappan Subramanian Acked-by: Iyappan Subramanian Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c index 1adfe7036843..9147a0107c44 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c @@ -450,12 +450,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t xgene_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, return NETDEV_TX_OK; } - pdata->ring_ops->wr_cmd(tx_ring, count); skb_tx_timestamp(skb); pdata->stats.tx_packets++; pdata->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len; + pdata->ring_ops->wr_cmd(tx_ring, count); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } -- 2.30.2