From: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 05:16:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_start_xmit()
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3679^2~1380
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9aceca39d40c373f5f1a0866059f8347101a3d5;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

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@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@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index aea78fc2e48f..59e9c56e5b8a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ 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)
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ 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);