This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_send() to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: hyperv-fix-a-bug-in-netvsc_send.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Oct 12 17:18:11 CEST 2014 From: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 10:42:51 -0700 Subject: hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_send() From: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3a67c9ccad926a168d8b7891537a452018368a5b ] After the packet is successfully sent, we should not touch the packet as it may have been freed. This patch is based on the work done by Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. David, please queue this up for stable. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c @@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device unsigned int section_index = NETVSC_INVALID_INDEX; u32 msg_size = 0; struct sk_buff *skb; + u16 q_idx = packet->q_idx; net_device = get_outbound_net_device(device); @@ -769,24 +770,24 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device if (ret == 0) { atomic_inc(&net_device->num_outstanding_sends); - atomic_inc(&net_device->queue_sends[packet->q_idx]); + atomic_inc(&net_device->queue_sends[q_idx]); if (hv_ringbuf_avail_percent(&out_channel->outbound) < RING_AVAIL_PERCENT_LOWATER) { netif_tx_stop_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue( - ndev, packet->q_idx)); + ndev, q_idx)); if (atomic_read(&net_device-> - queue_sends[packet->q_idx]) < 1) + queue_sends[q_idx]) < 1) netif_tx_wake_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue( - ndev, packet->q_idx)); + ndev, q_idx)); } } else if (ret == -EAGAIN) { netif_tx_stop_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue( - ndev, packet->q_idx)); - if (atomic_read(&net_device->queue_sends[packet->q_idx]) < 1) { + ndev, q_idx)); + if (atomic_read(&net_device->queue_sends[q_idx]) < 1) { netif_tx_wake_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue( - ndev, packet->q_idx)); + ndev, q_idx)); ret = -ENOSPC; } } else { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/hyperv-fix-a-bug-in-netvsc_send.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html