netpoll: Remove strong unnecessary assumptions about skbs
Remove the assumption that the skbs that make it to
netpoll_send_skb_on_dev are allocated with find_skb, such that
skb->users == 1 and nothing is attached that would prevent the skbs from
being freed from hard irq context.
Remove this assumption by replacing __kfree_skb on error paths with
dev_kfree_skb_irq (in hard irq context) and kfree_skb (in process
context).
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 9fd8887..d44af23 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
struct netdev_queue *txq;
if (!netif_device_present(dev) || !netif_running(dev)) {
- __kfree_skb(skb);
+ kfree_skb(skb);
continue;
}
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
npinfo = rcu_dereference_bh(np->dev->npinfo);
if (!npinfo || !netif_running(dev) || !netif_device_present(dev)) {
- __kfree_skb(skb);
+ dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
return;
}