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Subject[ 079/109] gianfar: fix potential sk_wmem_alloc imbalance
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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 313b037cf054ec908de92fb4c085403ffd7420d4 ]

commit db83d136d7f753 (gianfar: Fix missing sock reference when
processing TX time stamps) added a potential sk_wmem_alloc imbalance

If the new skb has a different truesize than old one, we can get a
negative sk_wmem_alloc once new skb is orphaned at TX completion.

Now we no longer early orphan skbs in dev_hard_start_xmit(), this
probably can lead to fatal bugs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Manfred Rudigier <manfred.rudigier@omicron.at>
Cc: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>
Cc: Jiajun Wu <b06378@freescale.com>
Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -2065,10 +2065,9 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buf
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}

- /* Steal sock reference for processing TX time stamps */
- swap(skb_new->sk, skb->sk);
- swap(skb_new->destructor, skb->destructor);
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ if (skb->sk)
+ skb_set_owner_w(skb_new, skb->sk);
+ consume_skb(skb);
skb = skb_new;
}




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