From: Jarek Poplawski Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:06:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: gianfar: Fix crashes on RX path (Was Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 19692] New: linux-2.6.36... X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc1~88^2~24 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd0ea2419544cfc4ccbf8ee0087d0d9f109852d2;p=karo-tx-linux.git 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) 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 Tested-by: emin ak Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski CC: Andy Fleming Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c index 4c4cc80ec0a1..49e4ce1246a7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c @@ -2511,7 +2511,7 @@ static int gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue) skb_recycle_check(skb, priv->rx_buffer_size + RXBUF_ALIGNMENT)) { gfar_align_skb(skb); - __skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb); + skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb); } else dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); @@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ 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 = gfar_alloc_skb(dev); @@ -2750,7 +2750,7 @@ int gfar_clean_rx_ring(struct gfar_priv_rx_q *rx_queue, int rx_work_limit) if (unlikely(!newskb)) newskb = skb; else if (skb) - __skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb); + skb_queue_head(&priv->rx_recycle, skb); } else { /* Increment the number of packets */ rx_queue->stats.rx_packets++;