From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7df5cb75cfb8acf96c7f2342530eb41e0c11f4c3 ] IRQs are disabled when freeing skbs in input queue. Use the IRQ safe variant to free skbs here. Fixes: 145dd5f9c88f ("net: flush the softnet backlog in process context") Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5252,7 +5252,7 @@ static void flush_backlog(struct work_st skb_queue_walk_safe(&sd->input_pkt_queue, skb, tmp) { if (skb->dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERING) { __skb_unlink(skb, &sd->input_pkt_queue); - kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb); input_queue_head_incr(sd); } }