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authorXander Hover <LKML@hover.be>2011-11-24 01:40:31 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-11-24 01:40:31 +0400
commit15ac2b08a2fd0f4aacbe8ae39788252fea6fbe63 (patch)
treee0171f408cf29a328a3ebdb693c8f3d010525a74 /drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
parent46a246c4dff9f248913e791b69f2336cd8d4ec41 (diff)
downloadlinux-15ac2b08a2fd0f4aacbe8ae39788252fea6fbe63.tar.xz
b44: Use dev_kfree_skb_irq() in b44_tx()
Reported issues when using dev_kfree_skb() on UP systems and systems with low numbers of cores. dev_kfree_skb_irq() will properly save IRQ state before freeing the skb. Tested on 3.1.1 and 3.2_rc2 Example of reproducible trace of kernel 3.1.1 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:159 local_bh_enable+0x32/0x79() ... Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.1-gentoo #1 Call Trace: [<c1022970>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a [<c102699e>] ? local_bh_enable+0x32/0x79 [<c1022994>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13 [<c102699e>] local_bh_enable+0x32/0x79 [<c134bfd8>] destroy_conntrack+0x7c/0x9b [<c134890b>] nf_conntrack_destroy+0x1f/0x26 [<c132e3a6>] skb_release_head_state+0x74/0x83 [<c132e286>] __kfree_skb+0xb/0x6b [<c132e30a>] consume_skb+0x24/0x26 [<c127c925>] b44_poll+0xaa/0x449 [<c1333ca1>] net_rx_action+0x3f/0xea [<c1026a44>] __do_softirq+0x5f/0xd5 [<c10269e5>] ? local_bh_enable+0x79/0x79 <IRQ> [<c1026c32>] ? irq_exit+0x34/0x8d [<c1003628>] ? do_IRQ+0x74/0x87 [<c13f5329>] ? common_interrupt+0x29/0x30 [<c1006e18>] ? default_idle+0x29/0x3e [<c10015a7>] ? cpu_idle+0x2f/0x5d [<c13e91c5>] ? rest_init+0x79/0x7b [<c15c66a9>] ? start_kernel+0x297/0x29c [<c15c60b0>] ? i386_start_kernel+0xb0/0xb7 ---[ end trace 583f33bb1aa207a9 ]--- Signed-off-by: Xander Hover <LKML@hover.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
index 4cf835dbc122..3fb66d09ece5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static void b44_tx(struct b44 *bp)
skb->len,
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
rp->skb = NULL;
- dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
}
bp->tx_cons = cons;