[PATCH net 1/1] hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_send()

K. Y. Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Sun Oct 5 17:42:51 UTC 2014


After the packet is successfully sent, we should not touch the packet 
as it may have been freed. This patch is based on the work done by
Long Li <longli at microsoft.com>.

David, please queue this up for stable.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe at yahoo.com>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index 977984b..7d76c95 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -717,6 +717,7 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
 	unsigned int section_index = NETVSC_INVALID_INDEX;
 	u32 msg_size = 0;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	u16 q_idx = packet->q_idx;
 
 
 	net_device = get_outbound_net_device(device);
@@ -781,24 +782,24 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
 
 	if (ret == 0) {
 		atomic_inc(&net_device->num_outstanding_sends);
-		atomic_inc(&net_device->queue_sends[packet->q_idx]);
+		atomic_inc(&net_device->queue_sends[q_idx]);
 
 		if (hv_ringbuf_avail_percent(&out_channel->outbound) <
 			RING_AVAIL_PERCENT_LOWATER) {
 			netif_tx_stop_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue(
-					    ndev, packet->q_idx));
+					    ndev, q_idx));
 
 			if (atomic_read(&net_device->
-				queue_sends[packet->q_idx]) < 1)
+				queue_sends[q_idx]) < 1)
 				netif_tx_wake_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue(
-						    ndev, packet->q_idx));
+						    ndev, q_idx));
 		}
 	} else if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
 		netif_tx_stop_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue(
-				    ndev, packet->q_idx));
-		if (atomic_read(&net_device->queue_sends[packet->q_idx]) < 1) {
+				    ndev, q_idx));
+		if (atomic_read(&net_device->queue_sends[q_idx]) < 1) {
 			netif_tx_wake_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue(
-					    ndev, packet->q_idx));
+					    ndev, q_idx));
 			ret = -ENOSPC;
 		}
 	} else {
-- 
1.7.4.1



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