[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "r8169: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    r8169: 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 f0e86d27190245a45c930d1c507ab13d7e7ad8f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:16:14 -0700
Subject: r8169: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

commit 989c9ba104d9ce53c1ca918262f3fdfb33aca12a 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/r8169.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index c737f0e..7202311 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -5835,7 +5835,7 @@ static void rtl8169_tx_clear_range(struct rtl8169_private *tp, u32 start,
 					     tp->TxDescArray + entry);
 			if (skb) {
 				tp->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
-				dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+				dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 				tx_skb->skb = NULL;
 			}
 		}
@@ -6060,7 +6060,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 err_dma_1:
 	rtl8169_unmap_tx_skb(d, tp->tx_skb + entry, txd);
 err_dma_0:
-	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 err_update_stats:
 	dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
@@ -6143,7 +6143,7 @@ static void rtl_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 			tp->tx_stats.packets++;
 			tp->tx_stats.bytes += tx_skb->skb->len;
 			u64_stats_update_end(&tp->tx_stats.syncp);
-			dev_kfree_skb(tx_skb->skb);
+			dev_kfree_skb_any(tx_skb->skb);
 			tx_skb->skb = NULL;
 		}
 		dirty_tx++;
--
1.9.1