From: Lars Persson <lars.persson@xxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit 3dcd493fbebfd631913df6e2773cc295d3bf7d22 ] A failure in validate_xmit_skb_list() triggered an unconditional call to dev_requeue_skb with skb=NULL. This slowly grows the queue discipline's qlen count until all traffic through the queue stops. We take the optimistic approach and continue running the queue after a failure since it is unknown if later packets also will fail in the validate path. Fixes: 55a93b3ea780 ("qdisc: validate skb without holding lock") Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/sch_generic.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c index 3c6f6b77..9821e6d 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c @@ -159,12 +159,15 @@ int sch_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q, if (validate) skb = validate_xmit_skb_list(skb, dev); - if (skb) { + if (likely(skb)) { HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, smp_processor_id()); if (!netif_xmit_frozen_or_stopped(txq)) skb = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq, &ret); HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq); + } else { + spin_lock(root_lock); + return qdisc_qlen(q); } spin_lock(root_lock); -- 2.5.0 -- 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