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authorNiklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@axis.com>2017-06-20 14:32:41 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-06-20 15:41:00 -0400
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tree17f1e6c46f6da8e830f3e13ac1edd17d49246978 /Documentation
parent57f0c9cf58ff7fe479137ab847a886d0eed3ad1d (diff)
net: stmmac: free an skb first when there are no longer any descriptors using it
When having the skb pointer in the first descriptor, stmmac_tx_clean can get called at a moment where the IP has only cleared the own bit of the first descriptor, thus freeing the skb, even though there can be several descriptors whose buffers point into the same skb. By simply moving the skb pointer from the first descriptor to the last descriptor, a skb will get freed only when the IP has cleared the own bit of all the descriptors that are using that skb. Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@axis.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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