netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] net: ethernet: mediatek: use dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree

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Message-Id: <20161020.144851.26048248768064960.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:48:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     weiyj.lk@...il.com
Cc:     nbd@...nwrt.org, blogic@...nwrt.org, matthias.bgg@...il.com,
        weiyongjun1@...wei.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] net: ethernet: mediatek: use dev_kfree_skb_any
 instead of dev_kfree_skb

From: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:00:32 +0000

> From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>
> 
> Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in mtk_start_xmit()
> which can be called from hard irq context (netpoll) and from
> other contexts. mtk_start_xmit() only frees skbs that it has
> dropped.
> 
> This is detected by Coccinelle semantic patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>

Applied.