KASAN failures in X-Gene ethernet driver in v4.4-rc2

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Nov 25 08:34:02 PST 2015


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 08:17:36AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 15:59 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > xgene_enet_start_xmit
> 
> Please try following trivial fix

With that applied KASAN is silent, despite my efforts to trigger the
issue, so it looks like that fixes it.

Thanks,
Mark.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
> index 1adfe7036843..9147a0107c44 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
> @@ -450,12 +450,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t xgene_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>  	}
>  
> -	pdata->ring_ops->wr_cmd(tx_ring, count);
>  	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
>  
>  	pdata->stats.tx_packets++;
>  	pdata->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
>  
> +	pdata->ring_ops->wr_cmd(tx_ring, count);
>  	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>  }
>  
> 
> 



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