From: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:40:13 +0100
> Some devices (e.g. ipoib and most wifi drivers) can retain the > to-be-xmitted packets on some internal queue for a possibly > unlimited time. This is really not legal, such behavior also potentially holds onto sockets forever. If driver really wants to hold onto an SKB potentially forever, it must release these resources. This belongs in the driver that violates, and I strongly say "violates", the basic fundamental rules of TX handling in the stack. Drivers absolutely must liberate queued TX packets in a reasonable, finite, amount of time.
