netxen: fix race in skb->len access

As soon as skb is given to hardware, TX completion can free skb under
us.
Therefore, we should update dev stats before kicking the device.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
CC: Amit Kumar Salecha <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index b644383017f91eba49e845048dde1e51d3241796..c0788a31ff0f4a8c0ee8b637ba335e69b7cd3056 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -1965,11 +1965,11 @@ netxen_nic_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 
        netxen_tso_check(netdev, tx_ring, first_desc, skb);
 
-       netxen_nic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
-
        adapter->stats.txbytes += skb->len;
        adapter->stats.xmitcalled++;
 
+       netxen_nic_update_cmd_producer(adapter, tx_ring);
+
        return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 
 drop_packet: