From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:03:15 +0000 Subject: [patch -next] vmxnet3: locking problems in xmit Message-Id: <20101220130315.GY1936@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Shreyas Bhatewara Cc: "VMware, Inc." , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org There were several paths that didn't release their locks. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c index 23154cf..939e546 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ vmxnet3_tq_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct vmxnet3_tx_queue *tq, } } else { tq->stats.drop_hdr_inspect_err++; - goto drop_pkt; + goto unlock_drop_pkt; } /* fill tx descs related to addr & len */ @@ -1052,6 +1052,8 @@ vmxnet3_tq_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct vmxnet3_tx_queue *tq, hdr_too_big: tq->stats.drop_oversized_hdr++; +unlock_drop_pkt: + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tq->tx_lock, flags); drop_pkt: tq->stats.drop_total++; dev_kfree_skb(skb);