After the packet is successfully sent, we should not touch the skb as it may have been freed. This patch is based on the work done by Long Li <[email protected]>.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Long Li <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c index a9c5eaa..0fcb5e7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net) int hdr_offset; u32 net_trans_info; u32 hash; + u32 skb_length = skb->len; /* We will atmost need two pages to describe the rndis @@ -562,7 +563,7 @@ do_send: drop: if (ret == 0) { - net->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len; + net->stats.tx_bytes += skb_length; net->stats.tx_packets++; } else { kfree(packet); -- 1.7.4.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
