Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

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From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:05:30 +0100 (CET)

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
> (d30f53aeb31d453a5230f526bea592af07944564) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
> after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
> its argument.  netif_rx_ni calls netif_rx, so the same problem occurs in
> the files below.
> 
> I have left the updating of dev->last_rx after the calls to netif_rx_ni
> because it seems time dependent, but moved the other field updates before.
> 
> This was found using the following semantic match.
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Applied.
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