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authorHannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>2009-05-04 11:06:37 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-05-19 22:20:14 -0700
commit81df41068f9610df82da8d6e58cdd1683a8ecd7d (patch)
treeaf6d13362a43a49c9df68da890c069ec5a82f025 /drivers/net
parent3dfc48ed4761449e83df1b24a6791a80fe5487a3 (diff)
ehea: fix invalid pointer access
commit 0b2febf38a33d7c40fb7bb4a58c113a1fa33c412 upstream. This patch fixes an invalid pointer access in case the receive queue holds no pointer to the next skb when the queue is empty. Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c31
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
index b70c5314f53..a6e730f3152 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -529,14 +529,17 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *get_skb_by_index(struct sk_buff **skb_array,
x &= (arr_len - 1);
pref = skb_array[x];
- prefetchw(pref);
- prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
-
- pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
- prefetch(pref);
- prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
- prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 2);
- prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 3);
+ if (pref) {
+ prefetchw(pref);
+ prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+
+ pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
+ prefetch(pref);
+ prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+ prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 2);
+ prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 3);
+ }
+
skb = skb_array[skb_index];
skb_array[skb_index] = NULL;
return skb;
@@ -553,12 +556,14 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *get_skb_by_index_ll(struct sk_buff **skb_array,
x &= (arr_len - 1);
pref = skb_array[x];
- prefetchw(pref);
- prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+ if (pref) {
+ prefetchw(pref);
+ prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
- pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
- prefetchw(pref);
- prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+ pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
+ prefetchw(pref);
+ prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+ }
skb = skb_array[wqe_index];
skb_array[wqe_index] = NULL;