[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "8139cp: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb." has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 5 20:33:41 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    8139cp: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb.

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From f156ae2937b13b8ad2837a8cd4b82cb42bbce00b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:14:58 -0700
Subject: 8139cp: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb.

commit 508f81d517ed1f3f0197df63ea7ab5cd91b6f3b3 upstream.

Replace kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in cp_start_xmit
as it can be called in both hard irq and other contexts.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
index 737c1a8..a3c1daa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ out_unlock:

 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 out_dma_error:
-	kfree_skb(skb);
+	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	cp->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 	goto out_unlock;
 }
--
1.9.1





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