Re: [PATCH alt.2] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue_xmit()

[Jarek Poplawski]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:49:57AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:15:32 +0000
> Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > tpacket_snd() can change and kfree an skb after dev_queue_xmit(),
> > which is illegal.
> > 
> > With debugging by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Reported-by: Michael Breuer <mbreuer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Good catch.
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>

First of all, we're incredibly lucky that such a helpful guy as
Michael had misfortune to hit so helpfully broken piece of hardware ;-)

Thanks,
Jarek P.
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