[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_start_xmit()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_start_xmit()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From f40ce87bfab5f8c4bf8354ecc077583a096e1801 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:16:43 -0700
Subject: hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_start_xmit()

[ Upstream commit dedb845ded56ded1c62f5398a94ffa8615d4592d ]

After the packet is successfully sent, we should not touch the skb
as it may have been freed. This patch is based on the work done by
Long Li <longli at microsoft.com>.

In this version of the patch I have fixed issues pointed out by David.
David, please queue this up for stable.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Long Li <longli at microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe at yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 6ea06a8..f4aef42 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 	struct hv_netvsc_packet *packet;
 	int ret;
 	unsigned int i, num_pages, npg_data;
+	u32 skb_length = skb->len;

 	/* Add multipages for skb->data and additional 2 for RNDIS */
 	npg_data = (((unsigned long)skb->data + skb_headlen(skb) - 1)
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 	ret = rndis_filter_send(net_device_ctx->device_ctx,
 				  packet);
 	if (ret == 0) {
-		net->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
+		net->stats.tx_bytes += skb_length;
 		net->stats.tx_packets++;
 	} else {
 		kfree(packet);
--
1.9.1