This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ixgb: 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: ixgb-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 14:18:42 -0700 Subject: ixgb: 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/intel/ixgb/ixgb_main.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_main.c @@ -1527,12 +1527,12 @@ ixgb_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, str int tso; if (test_bit(__IXGB_DOWN, &adapter->flags)) { - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } if (skb->len <= 0) { - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } @@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ ixgb_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, str tso = ixgb_tso(adapter, skb); if (tso < 0) { - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } 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