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authorSucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com>2011-07-14 03:16:53 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-07-14 08:49:44 -0700
commitf127f4727f3f60359570b6daa136ac1156e38fbf (patch)
tree068e73d445ce8b5fc798701a8e48b2d3b3973f5d /drivers/net/qlcnic
parente5dcf6dcde26ffdbd237dda4956bc6d7115dfae6 (diff)
qlcnic: fix race in skb->len access.
As soon as skb is given to hardware, TX completion can free skb under us. Therefore, we should update dev stats before kicking the device. Signed-off-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/qlcnic')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c b/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
index 916570db3aa..006a693d49a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
@@ -2290,11 +2290,11 @@ qlcnic_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
if (adapter->mac_learn)
qlcnic_send_filter(adapter, tx_ring, first_desc, skb);
- qlcnic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
-
adapter->stats.txbytes += skb->len;
adapter->stats.xmitcalled++;
+ qlcnic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
+
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
unwind_buff: