linux-kernel - [PATCH 08/10] staging: hv: fix the return status of netvsc_start

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Message-Id: <1314904788-32746-9-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Date:	Thu,  1 Sep 2011 12:19:46 -0700
From:	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
To:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com, hjanssen@...rosoft.com, kys@...rosoft.com,
	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: [PATCH 08/10] 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 81e3c49..30b9c80 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -140,12 +140,12 @@ 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 +
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ 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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