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From foo@baz Mon Jan 13 09:39:01 PST 2014
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:53:02 -0800
Subject: net: fec: fix potential use after free
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
[ Upstream commit 7a2a84518cfb263d2c4171b3d63671f88316adb2 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ fec_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
else
bdp = fec_enet_get_nextdesc(bdp, fep->bufdesc_ex);
+ skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
+
fep->cur_tx = bdp;
if (fep->cur_tx == fep->dirty_tx)
@@ -379,8 +381,6 @@ fec_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
/* Trigger transmission start */
writel(0, fep->hwp + FEC_X_DES_ACTIVE);
- skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
-
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}