netdev - Re: [ofa-general] NetEffect, iw

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:05:29 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	aluno3@...zta.onet.pl, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] NetEffect, iw_nes and kernel warning

 > > but actually I still don't see how it's safe for a net driver to
 > > call skb_linearize() from its transmit routine, since there's a
 > > chance that that will unconditionally enable BHs?
 > 
 > It's simply not allowed.
 > 
 > dev_queue_xmit() at a higher level can do __skb_linearize()
 > because it does so before doing the rcu_read_lock_bh().

OK, thanks... what confused me is that several other drivers also do
skb_linearize() in their hard_start_xmit method... eg bnx2x,
via-velocity, mv643xx_eth.  So there are several other lurking bugs to
deal with here I guess.

 - R.
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