[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: mvneta: fix race condition in mvneta_tx()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Dec 15 19:17:31 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: mvneta: fix race condition in mvneta_tx()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 3c72c79684a80b4fc28498ac3b658eb52d1d3cab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 04:30:59 -0800
Subject: net: mvneta: fix race condition in mvneta_tx()

[ Upstream commit 5f478b41033606d325e420df693162e2524c2b94 ]

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.

Fixes: 71f6d1b31fb1 ("net: mvneta: replace Tx timer with a real interrupt")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.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 03ff7c2..453437b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -1562,6 +1562,7 @@ 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;
 	struct netdev_queue *nq;
 	int frags = 0;
 	u32 tx_cmd;
@@ -1625,7 +1626,7 @@ 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++;
--
1.9.1





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