From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Yeounsu Moon <yyyynoom@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dlink: use dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 09:17:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251003081729.GB2878334@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251003022300.1105-1-yyyynoom@gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 11:23:00AM +0900, Yeounsu Moon wrote:
> Replace `dev_kfree_skb()` with `dev_kfree_skb_any()` in `start_xmit()`
> which can be called from hard irq context (netpoll) and from other
> contexts.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Yeounsu Moon <yyyynoom@gmail.com>
> Tested-on: D-Link DGE-550T Rev-A3
Hi,
I am curious to know why this problem has come up now.
Or more to the point, why it has not come up since the cited commit
was made, 20 years ago.
I am also curious to know how the problem was found.
By inspection? Through testing? Other?
...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-03 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-03 2:23 [PATCH net] net: dlink: use dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb Yeounsu Moon
2025-10-03 8:17 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2025-10-03 10:51 ` Yeounsu Moon
2025-10-04 9:54 ` Simon Horman
2025-10-04 11:45 ` Yeounsu Moon
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