Re: [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: apple: mace: don't call dev_kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave()

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:29:58AM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> It is not allowed to call consume_skb() from hardware interrupt context
> or with interrupts being disabled. So replace dev_kfree_skb() with
> dev_consume_skb_irq() under spin_lock_irqsave().
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>   Add a fix tag.
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mace.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mace.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mace.c
> index d0a771b65e88..77b4ed05140b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mace.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mace.c
> @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ static void mace_tx_timeout(struct timer_list *t)
>      if (mp->tx_bad_runt) {
>  	mp->tx_bad_runt = 0;
>      } else if (i != mp->tx_fill) {
> -	dev_kfree_skb(mp->tx_bufs[i]);
> +	dev_consume_skb_irq(mp->tx_bufs[i]);

Same question, why did you chose dev_consume_skb_irq and not dev_kfree_skb_irq?

Thanks

>  	if (++i >= N_TX_RING)
>  	    i = 0;
>  	mp->tx_empty = i;
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>