Commit 85e94525 authored Mar 15, 2014 by Eric W. Biederman

virtio_net: Call dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.



Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in start_xmit which can
be called in hard irq and other contexts.

start_xmit only frees skbs that it is dropping.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

parent 8b6da5fb

drivers/net/virtio_net.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff skb, struct net_device dev)
		dev_warn(&dev->dev,
		"Unexpected TXQ (%d) queue failure: %d\n", qnum, err);
		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
		kfree_skb(skb);
		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
		}

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