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

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 5 20:33:42 UTC 2015


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

    8139too: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_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 091bfe47043329e0bca98ab53a239ef82644bc79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:15:36 -0700
Subject: 8139too: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

commit a2ccd2e4bd70122523a7bf21cec4dd6e34427089 upstream.

Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in functions that can
be called in 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/8139too.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139too.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139too.c
index da5972e..8cb2f35 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139too.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139too.c
@@ -1717,9 +1717,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8139_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb,
 		if (len < ETH_ZLEN)
 			memset(tp->tx_buf[entry], 0, ETH_ZLEN);
 		skb_copy_and_csum_dev(skb, tp->tx_buf[entry]);
-		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	} else {
-		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
--
1.9.1





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