This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: bcmgenet: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-bcmgenet-suppress-warnings-on-failed-rx-skb-allo.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bfb37e0b4d38277406127c107e8586a950a9839d Author: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 23 16:02:11 2020 -0700 net: bcmgenet: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations [ Upstream commit ecaeceb8a8a145d93c7e136f170238229165348f ] The driver is designed to drop Rx packets and reclaim the buffers when an allocation fails, and the network interface needs to safely handle this packet loss. Therefore, an allocation failure of Rx SKBs is relatively benign. However, the output of the warning message occurs with a high scheduling priority that can cause excessive jitter/latency for other high priority processing. This commit suppresses the warning messages to prevent scheduling problems while retaining the failure count in the statistics of the network interface. Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c index 4b3660c63b864..38391230ca860 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c @@ -1674,7 +1674,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *bcmgenet_rx_refill(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv, dma_addr_t mapping; /* Allocate a new Rx skb */ - skb = netdev_alloc_skb(priv->dev, priv->rx_buf_len + SKB_ALIGNMENT); + skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(priv->dev, priv->rx_buf_len + SKB_ALIGNMENT, + GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!skb) { priv->mib.alloc_rx_buff_failed++; netif_err(priv, rx_err, priv->dev,