[PATCH 1/1] When timestamping is enabled, stmmac_tx_clean will call stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp to get tx TS. It's possible that skb is NULL because there are other network frames that use several descriptors. So we must return immediately in stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp if skb is NULL to avoid system crash.

From: damuzi000
Date: Sat Jan 11 2014 - 21:02:55 EST



Signed-off-by: damuzi000 <damuzi000@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 797b56a..47f2287 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static void stmmac_get_tx_hwtstamp(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
return;

/* exit if skb doesn't support hw tstamp */
- if (likely(!(skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS)))
+ if (likely(!skb || !(skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS)))
return;

if (priv->adv_ts)
--
1.7.9.5

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