[PATCH 3.11 002/233] arc_emac: fix potential use after free

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Feb 7 11:43:41 UTC 2014


3.11.10.4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com>

commit 37ec274e9713eafc2ba6c4471420f06cb8f68ecf upstream.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

skb_tx_timestamp(skb) should be called _before_ TX completion
has a chance to trigger, otherwise it is too late and we access
freed memory.

Fixes: e4f2379db6c6 ("ethernet/arc/arc_emac - Add new driver")
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
index 9e16014..4fc96d6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
@@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ static int arc_emac_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 	/* Make sure pointer to data buffer is set */
 	wmb();
 
+	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
+
 	*info = cpu_to_le32(FOR_EMAC | FIRST_OR_LAST_MASK | len);
 
 	/* Increment index to point to the next BD */
@@ -579,8 +581,6 @@ static int arc_emac_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 
 	arc_reg_set(priv, R_STATUS, TXPL_MASK);
 
-	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
-
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.3.2





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