This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen-netback: remove skb in xen_netbk_alloc_page to the 3.9-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: xen-netback-remove-skb-in-xen_netbk_alloc_page.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 27f852282ab9a028f57da96d05c26f38c424a315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:08:20 +0000 Subject: xen-netback: remove skb in xen_netbk_alloc_page From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 27f852282ab9a028f57da96d05c26f38c424a315 upstream. This variable is never used. Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c @@ -942,7 +942,6 @@ static int netbk_count_requests(struct x } static struct page *xen_netbk_alloc_page(struct xen_netbk *netbk, - struct sk_buff *skb, u16 pending_idx) { struct page *page; @@ -976,7 +975,7 @@ static struct gnttab_copy *xen_netbk_get index = pending_index(netbk->pending_cons++); pending_idx = netbk->pending_ring[index]; - page = xen_netbk_alloc_page(netbk, skb, pending_idx); + page = xen_netbk_alloc_page(netbk, pending_idx); if (!page) goto err; @@ -1381,7 +1380,7 @@ static unsigned xen_netbk_tx_build_gops( } /* XXX could copy straight to head */ - page = xen_netbk_alloc_page(netbk, skb, pending_idx); + page = xen_netbk_alloc_page(netbk, pending_idx); if (!page) { kfree_skb(skb); netbk_tx_err(vif, &txreq, idx); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.9/xen-netback-remove-skb-in-xen_netbk_alloc_page.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html