Because the number of available buffer slots doesn't decrease for failed sends, we should not call netvsc_xmit_completion(), which increase the count of available slots. In this failed case, just free the memory is enough.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]> --- drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c index 816e382..a15165e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net) } else { /* we are shutting down or bus overloaded, just drop packet */ net->stats.tx_dropped++; - netvsc_xmit_completion(packet); + kfree(packet); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } return NETDEV_TX_OK; -- 1.6.3.2 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
