[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "gianfar: Carefully free skbs in functions called by netpoll." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    gianfar: Carefully free skbs in functions called by netpoll.

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 06b1d865b5dab1c9183318ddbe4075dc50131e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:20:26 -0700
Subject: gianfar: Carefully free skbs in functions called by netpoll.

commit c9974ad4aeb36003860100221a594f3c0ccc3f78 upstream.

netpoll can call functions in hard irq context that are ordinarily
called in lesser contexts.  For those functions use dev_kfree_skb_any
and dev_consume_skb_any so skbs are freed safely from hard irq
context.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index b14d790..fd66535 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -2139,13 +2139,13 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 		skb_new = skb_realloc_headroom(skb, fcb_len);
 		if (!skb_new) {
 			dev->stats.tx_errors++;
-			kfree_skb(skb);
+			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 			return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 		}

 		if (skb->sk)
 			skb_set_owner_w(skb_new, skb->sk);
-		consume_skb(skb);
+		dev_consume_skb_any(skb);
 		skb = skb_new;
 	}

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1.9.1