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net: kernel panic in dev_hard_start_xmit: remove faulty software TX time stamping

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The current implementation of the TX software time stamping fallback is
faulty because it accesses the skb after ndo_start_xmit() returns
successfully. This patch removes the fallback, which fixes kernel panics
seen during stress tests. Hardware time stamping is not affected by this
removal.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick Ohly 2009-02-21 02:42:18 -08:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit cd4d8fdad1
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@ -1672,16 +1672,6 @@ static int dev_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb)
return 0;
}
static void tstamp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
union skb_shared_tx *shtx =
skb_tx(skb);
if (unlikely(shtx->software &&
!shtx->in_progress)) {
skb_tstamp_tx(skb, NULL);
}
}
int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_queue *txq)
{
@ -1715,8 +1705,6 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
* the skb destructor before the call and restoring it
* afterwards, then doing the skb_orphan() ourselves?
*/
if (likely(!rc))
tstamp_tx(skb);
return rc;
}
@ -1732,7 +1720,6 @@ gso:
skb->next = nskb;
return rc;
}
tstamp_tx(skb);
if (unlikely(netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) && skb->next))
return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
} while (skb->next);