It's not allowed to assign data pointer of skbuff directly, this makes no sense if the assigned pointer is the very same as already existing one, or it brakes all the pointer arithmetics in all other cases. We cannot do better as just compare them and report BUG() in case of mismatch.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverd...@nokia.com> --- We came across this problem developing new code for Octeon2 RAPIDIO. For the last 10 years since original commit of the code this assignment did nothing as the pointers were always same. But the bug in the new code discovered this one. So better do BUG() immediately here, this would prevent longer debugging of the following skbuff corruption. drivers/net/rionet.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/rionet.c b/drivers/net/rionet.c index dac7a0d..34c27b8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/rionet.c +++ b/drivers/net/rionet.c @@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ static int rionet_rx_clean(struct net_device *ndev) if (!(data = rio_get_inb_message(rnet->mport, RIONET_MAILBOX))) break; - rnet->rx_skb[i]->data = data; + if (rnet->rx_skb[i]->data != data) + BUG(); skb_put(rnet->rx_skb[i], RIO_MAX_MSG_SIZE); rnet->rx_skb[i]->protocol = eth_type_trans(rnet->rx_skb[i], ndev); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html