There is no guarantee that the skb is in the same state after calling net_receive_skb() or netif_rx(). It might be freed or reused. Not really harmful as its a read access, except you turn on the proper debugging options which catch a use after free.
Cc: Aaron Wu <aaron...@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <m...@pengutronix.de> --- drivers/net/can/bfin_can.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/bfin_can.c b/drivers/net/can/bfin_can.c index 27ad312e7abf..57dadd52b428 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/bfin_can.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/bfin_can.c @@ -424,10 +424,9 @@ static void bfin_can_rx(struct net_device *dev, u16 isrc) cf->data[6 - i] = (6 - i) < cf->can_dlc ? (val >> 8) : 0; } - netif_rx(skb); - stats->rx_packets++; stats->rx_bytes += cf->can_dlc; + netif_rx(skb); } static int bfin_can_err(struct net_device *dev, u16 isrc, u16 status) @@ -508,10 +507,9 @@ static int bfin_can_err(struct net_device *dev, u16 isrc, u16 status) priv->can.state = state; - netif_rx(skb); - stats->rx_packets++; stats->rx_bytes += cf->can_dlc; + netif_rx(skb); return 0; } -- 2.1.4 -- 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