# \[PATCH net-next\] mlx4: use dev\_kfree\_skb() instead of dev\_kfree\_skb\_any()

- From: Eric Dumazet \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-09-17 07:29:41 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/09/10904103
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/09/10904103/t.md

```text
From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>

Since commit e22979d96a5 (mlx4_en: Moving to Interrupts for TX
completions), we no longer can free TX skb from hard IRQ, but only from
normal softirq or process context.

Therefore, we can directly call dev_kfree_skb() from
mlx4_en_free_tx_desc() like other conventional NAPI drivers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Cc: Yevgeny Petrilin <redacted>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <redacted>
Cc: Ying Cai <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
index 10bba09..e182762 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static u32 mlx4_en_free_tx_desc(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
 		}
 
 	}
-	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 	return tx_info->nr_txbb;
 }
 
```