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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-07-05 07:45:13 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-07-09 18:28:03 -0400
commit313b037cf054ec908de92fb4c085403ffd7420d4 (patch)
tree7b7839d50a7d069bc825f58d8f8ad5f2e9a1ad0e /drivers/net/ethernet
parent022f09784b85396b4ceba954ce28e50de4882281 (diff)
gianfar: fix potential sk_wmem_alloc imbalance
commit db83d136d7f753 (gianfar: Fix missing sock reference when processing TX time stamps) added a potential sk_wmem_alloc imbalance If the new skb has a different truesize than old one, we can get a negative sk_wmem_alloc once new skb is orphaned at TX completion. Now we no longer early orphan skbs in dev_hard_start_xmit(), this probably can lead to fatal bugs. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Manfred Rudigier <manfred.rudigier@omicron.at> Cc: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com> Cc: Jiajun Wu <b06378@freescale.com> Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index f2db8fca46a1..ab1d80ff0791 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -2063,10 +2063,9 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
2063 return NETDEV_TX_OK; 2063 return NETDEV_TX_OK;
2064 } 2064 }
2065 2065
2066 /* Steal sock reference for processing TX time stamps */ 2066 if (skb->sk)
2067 swap(skb_new->sk, skb->sk); 2067 skb_set_owner_w(skb_new, skb->sk);
2068 swap(skb_new->destructor, skb->destructor); 2068 consume_skb(skb);
2069 kfree_skb(skb);
2070 skb = skb_new; 2069 skb = skb_new;
2071 } 2070 }
2072 2071