netdev - Re: [PATCH net] xen/netback: don't call kfree_skb() under spin_lock

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Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2022 14:38:35 +0000
From:   Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@...il.com>
To:     Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     wei.liu@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, jbeulich@...e.com,
        jgross@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] xen/netback: don't call kfree_skb() under
 spin_lock_irqsave()

On 05/12/2022 14:13, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> It is not allowed to call kfree_skb() from hardware interrupt
> context or with interrupts being disabled. So replace kfree_skb()
> with dev_kfree_skb_irq() under spin_lock_irqsave().
> 
> Fixes: be81992f9086 ("xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>

Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@....org>