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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2014-03-15 17:29:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2014-03-24 21:19:03 -0700 |
| commit | 26faa9d777718380c56419861370c3fe06a78c15 (patch) | |
| tree | b53d2f1640f9765b02e2fa41c085d0a56f874305 /drivers | |
| parent | cfbe40630745f2e9d4a51250e87a766c9a2907c2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-26faa9d777718380c56419861370c3fe06a78c15.tar.gz linux-26faa9d777718380c56419861370c3fe06a78c15.tar.xz | |
ibmveth: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in ibmveth_start_xmit
that can be called in hard irq and other contexts.
In this code path the packet can have either been transmitted
or dropped, dev_consume_skb_any was choosen because that preserves
the existing semantics of the code, and a transmitted packet is
more likely.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c index e75bdfcd1374..c9127562bd22 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c @@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ retry_bounce: DMA_TO_DEVICE); out: - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + dev_consume_skb_any(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; map_failed_frags: |