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virtio_net: Call dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

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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>
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Eric W. Biederman 2014-03-15 18:43:33 -07:00
parent 8b6da5fb96
commit 85e9452539
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drivers/net/virtio_net.c
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@ -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;
}