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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-06-19 20:26:15 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-06-20 13:04:12 -0700
commitc82b9d7fe7464aec78210544948564ffe3bb2d2b (patch)
tree7ee0b05997447d695b92f3890e47709f4f07c87c /drivers/net
parent44da29d26bb8df3b0411ba902f2bc9b973ea38e4 (diff)
netxen: 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: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index b644383017f9..c0788a31ff0f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -1965,11 +1965,11 @@ netxen_nic_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
netxen_tso_check(netdev, tx_ring, first_desc, skb);
- netxen_nic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
-
adapter->stats.txbytes += skb->len;
adapter->stats.xmitcalled++;
+ netxen_nic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
+
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
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