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Subject[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 84/90] gianfar: Carefully free skbs in functions called by netpoll.
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3.13.11-ckt20 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

commit c9974ad4aeb36003860100221a594f3c0ccc3f78 upstream.

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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index b14d790..fd66535 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -2139,13 +2139,13 @@ 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;
}

--
1.9.1


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