[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;
}
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