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[PATCH net v3 2/4] net: ethernet: dnet: don't call dev_kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave()

From: Yang Yingliang <hidden>
Date: 2022-12-08 14:26:17
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

It is not allowed to call kfree_skb() or consume_skb() from hardware
interrupt context or with hardware interrupts being disabled.

In this case, the lock is used to protected 'bp', so we can move
dev_kfree_skb() after the spin_unlock_irqrestore().

Fixes: 4796417417a6 ("dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver (updated)")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/dnet.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/dnet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/dnet.c
index 08184f20f510..151ca9573be9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/dnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/dnet.c
@@ -550,11 +550,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t dnet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 
 	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
 
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
+
 	/* free the buffer */
 	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
-
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
-- 
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