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arc_emac: fix potential use after free

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

skb_tx_timestamp(skb) should be called _before_ TX completion
has a chance to trigger, otherwise it is too late and we access
freed memory.

Fixes: e4f2379db6c6 ("ethernet/arc/arc_emac - Add new driver")
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 2
      drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c

+ 2 - 2
drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c

@@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ static int arc_emac_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 	/* Make sure pointer to data buffer is set */
 	wmb();
 
+	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
+
 	*info = cpu_to_le32(FOR_EMAC | FIRST_OR_LAST_MASK | len);
 
 	/* Increment index to point to the next BD */
@@ -579,8 +581,6 @@ static int arc_emac_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 
 	arc_reg_set(priv, R_STATUS, TXPL_MASK);
 
-	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
-
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }