linux-kernel - [PATCH 8/9] staging: hv: fix the return status of netvsc_start

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:14:56 -0700
From:	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
To:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com, hjanssen@...rosoft.com, kys@...rosoft.com,
	v-abkane@...rosoft.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] staging: hv: fix the return status of netvsc_start_xmit()

Fix the return status, so the upper layer will retry if transmission
fails.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
---
 drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index a15165e..818ddf8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 			 (num_pages * sizeof(struct hv_page_buffer)) +
 			 sizeof(struct rndis_filter_packet), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!packet) {
-		/* out of memory, silently drop packet */
+		/* out of memory, drop packet */
 		netdev_err(net, "unable to allocate hv_netvsc_packet\n");
 
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 		net->stats.tx_dropped++;
-		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
 	}
 
 	packet->extension = (void *)(unsigned long)packet +
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	}
 
-	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+	return ret ? NETDEV_TX_BUSY : NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.6.3.2

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