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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net/hyperv: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:53:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331751214.6022.47.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)

A driver start_xmit() method cannot free skb and return NETDEV_TX_BUSY,
since caller is going to reuse freed skb.

This is mostly a revert of commit bf769375c (staging: hv: fix the return
status of netvsc_start_xmit())

In fact netif_tx_stop_queue() / netif_stop_queue() is needed before
returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY or you can trigger a ksoftirqd fatal loop.

In case of memory allocation error, only safe way is to drop the packet
and return NETDEV_TX_OK

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 0f8e834..2517d20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 		net->stats.tx_dropped++;
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 
 	packet->vlan_tci = skb->vlan_tci;
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	}
 
-	return ret ? NETDEV_TX_BUSY : NETDEV_TX_OK;
+	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
 /*

             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 18:53 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-03-14 18:56 ` [PATCH] net/hyperv: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use Ben Greear
2012-03-14 19:17   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-14 20:00     ` Haiyang Zhang
2012-03-14 20:14       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-14 20:29         ` Haiyang Zhang
2012-03-16  9:02           ` David Miller

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