This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ethernet: s2io: don't call dev_kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave() to the 4.9-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: ethernet-s2io-don-t-call-dev_kfree_skb-under-spin_lo.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 2d1206ea94d07d8b819a9abaa127c7f96ca4b1d4 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 8 20:01:21 2022 +0800 ethernet: s2io: don't call dev_kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave() [ Upstream commit 6cee96e09df54ae17784c0f38a49e0ed8229b825 ] It is not allowed to call kfree_skb() or consume_skb() from hardware interrupt context or with hardware interrupts being disabled. It should use dev_kfree_skb_irq() or dev_consume_skb_irq() instead. The difference between them is free reason, dev_kfree_skb_irq() means the SKB is dropped in error and dev_consume_skb_irq() means the SKB is consumed in normal. In this case, dev_kfree_skb() is called in free_tx_buffers() to drop the SKBs in tx buffers, when the card is down, so replace it with dev_kfree_skb_irq() here. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/s2io.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/s2io.c index a66f4b867e3a..a66b797cdbbe 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/s2io.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/s2io.c @@ -2384,7 +2384,7 @@ static void free_tx_buffers(struct s2io_nic *nic) skb = s2io_txdl_getskb(&mac_control->fifos[i], txdp, j); if (skb) { swstats->mem_freed += skb->truesize; - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb); cnt++; } }