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[50/54] xen-netfront: Call dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

Message ID 1395727540-12148-50-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric W. Biederman March 25, 2014, 6:05 a.m. UTC 
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in xennet_start_xmit
which can be called in hard irq and other contexts.  xennet_start_xmit
only fress skbs which it drops.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Eric Dumazet March 25, 2014, 8:46 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 23:05 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in xennet_start_xmit
> which can be called in hard irq and other contexts.  xennet_start_xmit
> only fress skbs which it drops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>


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diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 49f3b3dbbed8..057b05700f8b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@  static int xennet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 
  drop:
 	dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
-	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }