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Message-ID: <20090421090918.GA6034@mail.wantstofly.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:09:18 +0200
From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
aluno3@...zta.onet.pl, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] NetEffect, iw_nes and kernel warning
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:54:12PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > > I don't believe this is accurate. Calling skb_linearize() (on a kernel
> > > with CONFIG_HIGHMEM set) can end up calling local_bh_enable() in
> > > kunmap_skb_frag(), which can obviously cause problems if the initial
> > > context relies on having BHs disabled (as hard_start_xmit does).
> >
> > local_bh_{enable,disable}() nests, so this is not a problem
>
> Duh. OK, then the only bugs seem to be that iw_nes does skb_linearize
> with irqs off (due to being an LLTX driver), and mv643xx_eth leaks an
> skb on its error path if skb_linearize fails.
(Found this when deleting old netdev@ mail...) mv643xx_eth returns
NETDEV_TX_BUSY if skb_linearize fails, so the qdisc will requeue the
skb, and we shouldn't free it. Am I missing something?
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