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authorJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>2010-10-19 00:06:36 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-11-22 11:00:06 -0800
commit4d7fa13e13b6d9cf4d2ed085d8c093dc6c6b549e (patch)
tree60c778c7777ec723a6bdbf7ac0fc73786304db1c
parentd27645006b5e2b136c0dd8d87e0c4d73612129d5 (diff)
gianfar: Fix crashes on RX path (Was Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 19692] New: linux-2.6.36-rc5 crash with gianfar ethernet at full line rate traffic)
[ Upstream commit 0d1fe1111c667e9c713d7efc7ae468a605f236a4 ] The rx_recycle queue is global per device but can be accesed by many napi handlers at the same time, so it needs full skb_queue primitives (with locking). Otherwise, various crashes caused by broken skbs are possible. This patch resolves, at least partly, bugzilla bug 19692. (Because of some doubts that there could be still something around which is hard to reproduce my proposal is to leave this bug opened for a month.) Fixes commit: 0fd56bb5be6455d0d42241e65aed057244665e5e ("gianfar: Add support for skb recycling") Reported-by: emin ak <eminak71@gmail.com> Tested-by: emin ak <eminak71@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> CC: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/gianfar.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
index 28b53d1cd4f1..26a1aca8e19c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
@@ -2427,7 +2427,7 @@ static int gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue)
if (skb_queue_len(&priv->rx_recycle) < rx_queue->rx_ring_size &&
skb_recycle_check(skb, priv->rx_buffer_size +
RXBUF_ALIGNMENT))
- __skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb);
+ skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb);
else
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
@@ -2498,7 +2498,7 @@ struct sk_buff * gfar_new_skb(struct net_device *dev)
struct gfar_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
- skb = __skb_dequeue(&priv->rx_recycle);
+ skb = skb_dequeue(&priv->rx_recycle);
if (!skb)
skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev,
priv->rx_buffer_size + RXBUF_ALIGNMENT);
@@ -2675,7 +2675,7 @@ int gfar_clean_rx_ring(struct gfar_priv_rx_q *rx_queue, int rx_work_limit)
* recycle list.
*/
skb_reserve(skb, -GFAR_CB(skb)->alignamount);
- __skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb);
+ skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb);
}
} else {
/* Increment the number of packets */