Re: [PATCH] 8139too.c

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 11:57:17 EST


On Nov 30, 2001 20:23 +0900, kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp 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 <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>).

> + 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;
 }

--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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