Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Haiyang Zhang <> | Subject | [PATCH 7/9] staging: hv: fix counting of available buffer slots when send fails | Date | Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:14:55 -0700 |
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Because the number of available buffer slots doesn't decrease for failed sends, we should not call netvsc_xmit_completion(), which increase the count of available slots. In this failed case, just free the memory is enough.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> --- drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c index 816e382..a15165e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net) } else { /* we are shutting down or bus overloaded, just drop packet */ net->stats.tx_dropped++; - netvsc_xmit_completion(packet); + kfree(packet); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } return NETDEV_TX_OK; -- 1.6.3.2
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