[PATCH 53/54] virtio_net: Call dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-25 06:11:30
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest, virtio net driver · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted> Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in start_xmit which can be called in hard irq and other contexts. start_xmit only frees skbs that it is dropping. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 80d84c446962..99fa48c941c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Unexpected TXQ (%d) queue failure: %d\n", qnum, err); dev->stats.tx_dropped++; - kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; }
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