ibmveth: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.
Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in ibmveth_start_xmit
that can be called in hard irq and other contexts.
In this code path the packet can have either been transmitted
or dropped, dev_consume_skb_any was choosen because that preserves
the existing semantics of the code, and a transmitted packet is
more likely.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
index e75bdfc..c912756 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
out:
- dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ dev_consume_skb_any(skb);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
map_failed_frags: