netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/6] net: Free skbs from irqs when possible.

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Message-Id: <20140318.143712.1925745769166753460.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:37:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com,
	satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] net: Free skbs from irqs when possible.

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:47:36 -0700

> Most of the destructors today are fine (which doubly makes the warning
> confusing).

Not true by my estimation.  We absolutely do not want socket state being
modified from hardware interrupts, and that's the most common destructor,
releasing socket memory.

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