[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "bnx2: 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 20:33:44 UTC 2015


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

    bnx2: 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 b343941e9be846d3341aa7411dafe0ac8dee5019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:17:41 -0700
Subject: bnx2: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

commit f458b2ee93ee3606c83f76213fbe49e026bac754 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/broadcom/bnx2.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c
index 8409bc1..fc40022 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c
@@ -2869,7 +2869,7 @@ bnx2_tx_int(struct bnx2 *bp, struct bnx2_napi *bnapi, int budget)
 		sw_cons = BNX2_NEXT_TX_BD(sw_cons);

 		tx_bytes += skb->len;
-		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 		tx_pkt++;
 		if (tx_pkt == budget)
 			break;
@@ -6622,7 +6622,7 @@ bnx2_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)

 	mapping = dma_map_single(&bp->pdev->dev, skb->data, len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
 	if (dma_mapping_error(&bp->pdev->dev, mapping)) {
-		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}

@@ -6715,7 +6715,7 @@ dma_error:
 			       PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
 	}

-	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }

--
1.9.1





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