Thread (288 messages) 288 messages, 13 authors, 2014-04-01
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[PATCH 37/54] sc92031: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-25 06:11:36
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 sc92031_start_xmit
that can be called in hard irq and other contexts.

Using dev_consume_skb_any preserves the current semantics (as
dev_kfree_skb is just consume_skb) and since packet drops
are rare is usually accurate.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/silan/sc92031.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/silan/sc92031.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/silan/sc92031.c
index 5eb933c97bba..7daa7d433099 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/silan/sc92031.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/silan/sc92031.c
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
 
 out:
-	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+	dev_consume_skb_any(skb);
 
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4
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