net: fec: fix potential use after free
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:53:02 +0000 (10:53 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:03:25 +0000 (18:03 -0500)
skb_tx_timestamp(skb) should be called _before_ TX completion
has a chance to trigger, otherwise it is too late and we access
freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: de5fb0a05348 ("net: fec: put tx to napi poll function to fix dead lock")
Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li@freescale.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c

index e7c8b749c5a53f969096e3f442195d88f82597d7..50bb71c663e20a010c9a4390c3d1c38726037c85 100644 (file)
@@ -428,6 +428,8 @@ fec_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
        /* If this was the last BD in the ring, start at the beginning again. */
        bdp = fec_enet_get_nextdesc(bdp, fep);
 
+       skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
+
        fep->cur_tx = bdp;
 
        if (fep->cur_tx == fep->dirty_tx)
@@ -436,8 +438,6 @@ fec_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
        /* Trigger transmission start */
        writel(0, fep->hwp + FEC_X_DES_ACTIVE);
 
-       skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
-
        return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }