Re: [PATCH] 8139too.c

[Andreas Dilger]

On Nov 30, 2001  20:23 +0900, [e-mail] wrote:
> In 8139too.c, skb is used after it is freed.
> Look at the argument of RTL_W32_F() in the following patch.
> 
> 8 % diff -u -10 8139too.c  /tmp/8139too.c 
> --- 8139too.c	Sun Nov 25 10:46:36 2001
> +++ /tmp/8139too.c	Fri Nov 30 19:50:48 2001
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please try to keep patches relative to the linux/ directory, so they can
be applied via "patch -p1" as most other kernel patches are.  Also note
that you should CC the driver maintainer if you want to get the patch
into the kernel (in this case Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]>).

> +	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
>  
>  	DPRINTK ("%s: Queued Tx packet at %p size %u to slot %d.\n",
>  		 dev->name, skb->data, skb->len, entry);
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your patch still does not fix the problems.  Since we only use "skb->len"
(except for the debug case, where we also use the skb->data pointer),
rather just copy skb->len into a local variable and free skb early, so
it can be used again, rather than holding it over a spin lock.

I don't know if anyone really cares about the skb->data pointer in the
DPRINTK.  If so, we could move it up before we free the skb, but I
thought it incorrect to do so, because it is not queued at that time,
and I didn't want to add a temp variable that only appears in a debug.

Cheers, Andreas
--- linux/drivers/net/8139too.c.orig	Sun Nov 25 10:46:36 2001
+++ linux/drivers/net/8139too.c	Fri Nov 30 19:50:48 2001
@@ -1635,35 +1635,36 @@
 	struct rtl8139_private *tp = dev->priv;
 	void *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr;
 	unsigned int entry;
+	unsigned int len = skb->len;
 
 	/* Calculate the next Tx descriptor entry. */
 	entry = tp->cur_tx % NUM_TX_DESC;
 
-	if (likely(skb->len < TX_BUF_SIZE)) {
+	if (likely(len < TX_BUF_SIZE)) {
 		skb_copy_and_csum_dev(skb, tp->tx_buf[entry]);
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 	} else {
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 		tp->stats.tx_dropped++;
 		return 0;
-  	}
+	}
 
 	/* Note: the chip doesn't have auto-pad! */
 	spin_lock_irq(&tp->lock);
 	RTL_W32_F (TxStatus0 + (entry * sizeof (u32)),
-		   tp->tx_flag | (skb->len >= ETH_ZLEN ? skb->len : ETH_ZLEN));
+		   tp->tx_flag | max(len, (unsigned int)ETH_ZLEN));
 
 	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
 
 	tp->cur_tx++;
 	wmb();
 
 	if ((tp->cur_tx - NUM_TX_DESC) == tp->dirty_tx)
 		netif_stop_queue (dev);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&tp->lock);
 
-	DPRINTK ("%s: Queued Tx packet at %p size %u to slot %d.\n",
-		 dev->name, skb->data, skb->len, entry);
+	DPRINTK ("%s: Queued Tx packet size %u to slot %d.\n",
+		 dev->name, len, entry);
 
 	return 0;
 }

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Andreas Dilger
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