Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 13:03:35 EST


On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
> (d30f53aeb31d453a5230f526bea592af07944564) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
> after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
> its argument. The same problem occurs in some other drivers as well.
>
> This was found using the following semantic match.
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Thanks, I'll forward this on.

Jeff

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