netdev - Re: Kernel Panic Sending Frames Using dev_queue

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Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:47:15 -0700
From:	Merlin Davis <me.the.wizard@...il.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic Sending Frames Using dev_queue_xmit()

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> wrote:
> Macro expansion bug.

Yes!  Excellent.  If I change the code to:

   err = dev_queue_xmit(skb);
   err = net_xmit_eval(err);

then the panic seems to disappear (I've run for at least 30 minutes
now without a crash anyway).  Would the best fix for this in the
kernel code be to:

A.) document the net_xmit_eval() macro with a warning,
B.) add local scope the the macro with ({ ... }) to remove the double
evaluation, or
C.) do nothing in the kernel code and stop being such a dumbass when calling it?

Thank you,
Merlin
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