netdev - Re: softirq oops from b44

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Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:13:10 -0800
From:	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"lkml@...er.be" <lkml@...er.be>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: softirq oops from b44_poll

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 12:54 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:17:33 -0800
> 
> > I suspect the "right" way to fix this is to call dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> > instead, since that will handle the in-interrupt case if that's where
> > we're stuck.
> 
> Caller is always b44_poll(), and that caller always does spin_lock_irqsave().
> 
> Adding the extra tests implied by dev_kfree_skb_any() therefore doesn't
> make any sense, as it will always evaluate to dev_kfree_skb_irq().

Agreed, I didn't dig enough through the code.  Thanks Dave.

-PJ

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