This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8169: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb. to the 3.10-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: r8169-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-dev_kfree_skb.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Apr 21 23:05:58 CEST 2015 From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:16:14 -0700 Subject: r8169: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb. From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in functions that can be called in hard irq and other contexts. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c @@ -5768,7 +5768,7 @@ static void rtl8169_tx_clear_range(struc tp->TxDescArray + entry); if (skb) { tp->dev->stats.tx_dropped++; - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); tx_skb->skb = NULL; } } @@ -5993,7 +5993,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(st err_dma_1: rtl8169_unmap_tx_skb(d, tp->tx_skb + entry, txd); err_dma_0: - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); err_update_stats: dev->stats.tx_dropped++; return NETDEV_TX_OK; @@ -6076,7 +6076,7 @@ static void rtl_tx(struct net_device *de tp->tx_stats.packets++; tp->tx_stats.bytes += tx_skb->skb->len; u64_stats_update_end(&tp->tx_stats.syncp); - dev_kfree_skb(tx_skb->skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(tx_skb->skb); tx_skb->skb = NULL; } dirty_tx++; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/tg3-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-dev_kfree_skb.patch queue-3.10/bnx2-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-dev_kfree_skb.patch queue-3.10/r8169-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-dev_kfree_skb.patch queue-3.10/8139cp-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-kfree_skb.patch queue-3.10/8139too-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-dev_kfree_skb.patch queue-3.10/benet-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-kfree_skb.patch queue-3.10/gianfar-carefully-free-skbs-in-functions-called-by-netpoll.patch queue-3.10/ixgb-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-dev_kfree_skb.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