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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-07-05 11:45:13 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-09 08:31:41 -0700
commitd680c0462d9f4d96b255853364fb0bcd5c202553 (patch)
tree4518122000e4a1b258c2f345f5b2ed4849fdf218 /drivers/net/ethernet
parentf7a47ee34686694148f6d34a4576385853c5e33f (diff)
gianfar: fix potential sk_wmem_alloc imbalance
[ Upstream commit 313b037cf054ec908de92fb4c085403ffd7420d4 ] 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 e7bed5303997..24381e1298e2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -2065,10 +2065,9 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
- /* Steal sock reference for processing TX time stamps */
- swap(skb_new->sk, skb->sk);
- swap(skb_new->destructor, skb->destructor);
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ if (skb->sk)
+ skb_set_owner_w(skb_new, skb->sk);
+ consume_skb(skb);
skb = skb_new;
}