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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>
Eric W. Biederman 11 years ago
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080b3c19a4
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 2
      net/core/netpoll.c

+ 2 - 2
net/core/netpoll.c

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void queue_process(struct work_struct *work)
 		struct netdev_queue *txq;
 
 		if (!netif_device_present(dev) || !netif_running(dev)) {
-			__kfree_skb(skb);
+			kfree_skb(skb);
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	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;
 	}