This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio_net: Remove BUG() to avoid machine dead
to the 5.4-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:
virtio_net-remove-bug-to-avoid-machine-dead.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 615868bc535db73535eb3722e23671fc1a42bf90
Author: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jun 5 11:31:00 2021 -0400
virtio_net: Remove BUG() to avoid machine dead
[ Upstream commit 85eb1389458d134bdb75dad502cc026c3753a619 ]
We should not directly BUG() when there is hdr error, it is
better to output a print when such error happens. Currently,
the caller of xmit_skb() already did it.
Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index d8ee001d8e8e..5cd55f950032 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ static int xmit_skb(struct send_queue *sq, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (virtio_net_hdr_from_skb(skb, &hdr->hdr,
virtio_is_little_endian(vi->vdev), false,
0))
- BUG();
+ return -EPROTO;
if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
hdr->num_buffers = 0;
