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mkiss: ax_bump() locking fix 

According to one of OOPSes reported by Jann softirq can break
while skb is prepared for netif_rx. The report isn't complete,
so the real reason of the later bug could be different, but
IMHO this locking break in ax_bump is unsafe and unnecessary.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jann Traschewski <jann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Jarek Poplawski 2008-02-13 11:17:58 +00:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent a1a98b72db
commit 9f30c768c0
1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
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@ -289,7 +289,6 @@ static void ax_bump(struct mkiss *ax)
*ax->rbuff &= ~0x20;
}
}
spin_unlock_bh(&ax->buflock);
count = ax->rcount;
@ -297,17 +296,17 @@ static void ax_bump(struct mkiss *ax)
printk(KERN_ERR "mkiss: %s: memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n",
ax->dev->name);
ax->stats.rx_dropped++;
spin_unlock_bh(&ax->buflock);
return;
}
spin_lock_bh(&ax->buflock);
memcpy(skb_put(skb,count), ax->rbuff, count);
spin_unlock_bh(&ax->buflock);
skb->protocol = ax25_type_trans(skb, ax->dev);
netif_rx(skb);
ax->dev->last_rx = jiffies;
ax->stats.rx_packets++;
ax->stats.rx_bytes += count;
spin_unlock_bh(&ax->buflock);
}
static void kiss_unesc(struct mkiss *ax, unsigned char s)