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 <haiya...@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
---
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 b49a08f..81e3c49 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ 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
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