Subject: Re: [Bug #14378] Problems with net/core/skbuff.c

From: Massimo Cetra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:27:34 +0200

Massimo Cetra ha scritto:
> Eric Dumazet ha scritto:
>> Could you please following patch ?
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> index 8d00976..54bf091 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ static unsigned int free_old_xmit_skbs(struct 
>> virtnet_info *vi)
>>          vi->dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
>>          vi->dev->stats.tx_packets++;
>>          tot_sgs += skb_vnet_hdr(skb)->num_sg;
>> -        kfree_skb(skb);
>> +        dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
>>      }
>>      return tot_sgs;
>>  }
>>
>>
>>   
> Thank you very much.
>
> Compiling.
> It' will be in production in a few minutes.
> I'll let you know if the problem arises again.
> give me a couple of days because this problem is randomly triggered.
> Sometimes it happens multiple times a day, sometimes none.
>
Eric,
thanks for the patch.
The problem didn't arise again and i haven't seen any warning like that 
on both servers where that problem was happening more frequently.

I would say that it's fixed and if it's not, i'll let you know as soon 
as it happens again.

Thanks again,
Max