netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] 8139cp: reset BQL when ring tx ring cleared

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 22:44:49 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2]  8139cp: reset BQL when ring tx ring cleared

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> :
> On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 12:36 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks; I'll try that. In fact since updating to 4.2 the problem has
> > got worse — now the whole machine dies:
> 
> There is something very strange going on here. I've found two ways to
> make it stop crashing when cp_tx_timeout() hits the 'popf' when
> unlocking the spinlock.

cp_tx_timeout takes lock, disables irq, calls cp_clean_rings, thus
plain dev_kfree_skb if a skb is still referenced in one of the
rx/tx ring. You may replace it with dev_kfree_skb_any.

-- 
Ueimor
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