Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] prism54/islpci_eth.c: dev_kfree_skb in irq context

From: Graham Gower <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:33:27 +1030

On 03/01/06, Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Graham Gower wrote:
> > My logs were starting to fill with messages exatcly like that mentioned here:
> > http://patchwork.netfilter.org/netfilter-devel/patch.pl?id=2840
> >
> > In any event, the patch at the end of that link was never applied (it doesn't
> > fix the other call to dev_kfree_skb). After applying my patch, I've not had any
> > more messages in the logs.
>
> The patch has been applied to 2.6.15-rc. Only the first hunk of your
> patch is still required, but it doesn't apply anymore. Can you send
> a new patch against 2.6.15 please?
>

Ok, here's a new one. Hope I got it right this time.

Signed-off-by: Graham Gower <[email-masked]>

--- linux-2.6.15/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c.orig
+++ linux-2.6.15/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 #endif

 			newskb->dev = skb->dev;
-			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+			dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
 			skb = newskb;
 		}
 	}