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 4.4-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-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cf5549c71ef5a8b004a52bb1ba5a913b30a4ebfa 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 34fae5576b603..4b3b396bd8ebe 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c @@ -1575,7 +1575,8 @@ 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,