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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2014-03-11 14:20:26 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-04-29 10:31:49 +0200
commit8f9a7898757387b97dcba1d35ad0f44c710cbb21 (patch)
tree9ab21b2dea58ff5fbe5184f0ea5101be39ec4fa1
parentd2be4e171cca7abf12e4df50fecabdf629af1cf1 (diff)
gianfar: Carefully free skbs in functions called by netpoll.
netpoll can call functions in hard irq context that are ordinarily called in lesser contexts. For those functions use dev_kfree_skb_any and dev_consume_skb_any so skbs are freed safely from hard irq context. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index ad5a5aadc7e1..70eb4d27b4fa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -2152,13 +2152,13 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
skb_new = skb_realloc_headroom(skb, fcb_len);
if (!skb_new) {
dev->stats.tx_errors++;
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
if (skb->sk)
skb_set_owner_w(skb_new, skb->sk);
- consume_skb(skb);
+ dev_consume_skb_any(skb);
skb = skb_new;
}