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net/hyperv: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use 

A driver start_xmit() method cannot free skb and return NETDEV_TX_BUSY,
since caller is going to reuse freed skb.

This is mostly a revert of commit bf769375c (staging: hv: fix the return
status of netvsc_start_xmit())

In fact netif_tx_stop_queue() / netif_stop_queue() is needed before
returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY or you can trigger a ksoftirqd fatal loop.

In case of memory allocation error, only safe way is to drop the packet
and return NETDEV_TX_OK

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2012-03-14 08:53:34 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 7bdd402706
commit bb6d5e76fb
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
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@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
net->stats.tx_dropped++;
return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
packet->extension = (void *)(unsigned long)packet +
@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
}
return ret ? NETDEV_TX_BUSY : NETDEV_TX_OK;
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
/*