[PATCH 2/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

[PATCH 2/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

[Julia Lawall]

From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
(d30f53aeb31d453a5230f526bea592af07944564) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
its argument.  The same problem occurs in some other drivers as well.

This was found using the following semantic match.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression skb, e,e1;
@@

(
 netif_rx(skb);
|
 netif_rx_ni(skb);
)
  ... when != skb = e
(
  skb = e1
|
* skb
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
---

diff a/arch/xtensa/platform-iss/network.c b/arch/xtensa/platform-iss/network.c
--- a/arch/xtensa/platform-iss/network.c	2007-10-22 16:31:51.000000000 +0200
+++ b/arch/xtensa/platform-iss/network.c	2007-12-05 19:01:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -393,11 +393,11 @@ static int iss_net_rx(struct net_device 
 	if (pkt_len > 0) {
 		skb_trim(skb, pkt_len);
 		skb->protocol = lp->tp.protocol(skb);
-	//	netif_rx(skb);
-		netif_rx_ni(skb);
 
 		lp->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
 		lp->stats.rx_packets++;
+	//	netif_rx(skb);
+		netif_rx_ni(skb);
 		return pkt_len;
 	}
 	kfree_skb(skb);

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

[David Miller]

From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:03:55 +0100 (CET)

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
> (d30f53aeb31d453a5230f526bea592af07944564) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
> after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
> its argument.  The same problem occurs in some other drivers as well.
> 
> This was found using the following semantic match.
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Also applied, thanks.