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: Oliver Hartkopp <socket...@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <m...@pengutronix.de> --- drivers/net/can/slcan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/slcan.c b/drivers/net/can/slcan.c index a23a7af8eb9a..9a3f15cb7ef4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/slcan.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/slcan.c @@ -218,10 +218,10 @@ static void slc_bump(struct slcan *sl) memcpy(skb_put(skb, sizeof(struct can_frame)), &cf, sizeof(struct can_frame)); - netif_rx_ni(skb); sl->dev->stats.rx_packets++; sl->dev->stats.rx_bytes += cf.can_dlc; + netif_rx_ni(skb); } /* parse tty input stream */ -- 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