[PATCH 5.4 03/19] dev: Defer free of skbs in flush_backlog

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-30T08:05:59Z

From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>

[ Upstream commit 7df5cb75cfb8acf96c7f2342530eb41e0c11f4c3 ]

IRQs are disabled when freeing skbs in input queue.
Use the IRQ safe variant to free skbs here.

Fixes: 145dd5f9c88f ("net: flush the softnet backlog in process context")
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5229,7 +5229,7 @@ static void flush_backlog(struct work_st
skb_queue_walk_safe(&sd->input_pkt_queue, skb, tmp) {
if (skb->dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERING) {
__skb_unlink(skb, &sd->input_pkt_queue);
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
input_queue_head_incr(sd);
}
}