It is possible for the sky2 driver NAPI poll routine to be called with IRQ's disabled if netpoll is trying to make space in the tx queue. This is an obscure path, but if it happens, the kfree_skb needs to happen via softirq. Calling kfree_skb with IRQ's disabled is a not allowed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- drivers/net/sky2.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- netdev-2.6.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c 2006-12-01 14:23:30.000000000 -0800 +++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c 2006-12-01 14:23:33.000000000 -0800 @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ if (unlikely(netif_msg_tx_done(sky2))) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: tx done %u\n", dev->name, idx); - dev_kfree_skb(re->skb); + dev_kfree_skb_any(re->skb); } le->opcode = 0; /* paranoia */ -- Stephen Hemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html