Thread (288 messages) 288 messages, 13 authors, 2014-04-01
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[PATCH 45/54] spider_net: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-25 06:11:31
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>

Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in
spider_net_release_tx_chain which can be called in hard irq and other
contexts.

dev_consume_skb_any was choosen as it preserves the current
dev_kfree_skb semantics (dev_kfree_skb is consume_skb) and
is because it is correct most of the time as most packets
will have been successfully transmitted not dropeed.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.c
index 3f4a32e39d27..0282d0161859 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.c
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ spider_net_release_tx_chain(struct spider_net_card *card, int brutal)
 		if (skb) {
 			pci_unmap_single(card->pdev, buf_addr, skb->len,
 					PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
-			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+			dev_consume_skb_any(skb);
 		}
 	}
 	return 0;
-- 
1.7.10.4
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