This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled benet: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of 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: benet-call-dev_kfree_skby_any-instead-of-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 14:19:50 -0700 Subject: benet: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb. From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Replace free_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in be_tx_compl_process as which can be called in hard irq by netpoll, softirq context by normal napi polling, and in normal sleepable context by the network device close method. 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/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c @@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ static u16 be_tx_compl_process(struct be queue_tail_inc(txq); } while (cur_index != last_index); - kfree_skb(sent_skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(sent_skb); return num_wrbs; } 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