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: Wolfgang Grandegger <w...@grandegger.com> Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <socket...@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <m...@pengutronix.de> --- drivers/net/can/sja1000/sja1000.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/sja1000/sja1000.c b/drivers/net/can/sja1000/sja1000.c index 32bd7f451aa4..7b92e911a616 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/sja1000/sja1000.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/sja1000/sja1000.c @@ -377,10 +377,9 @@ static void sja1000_rx(struct net_device *dev) /* release receive buffer */ sja1000_write_cmdreg(priv, CMD_RRB); - netif_rx(skb); - stats->rx_packets++; stats->rx_bytes += cf->can_dlc; + netif_rx(skb); can_led_event(dev, CAN_LED_EVENT_RX); } @@ -484,10 +483,9 @@ static int sja1000_err(struct net_device *dev, uint8_t isrc, uint8_t status) can_bus_off(dev); } - 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