[PATCH 47/54] via-velocity: Call dev_kfree_skb_any instead of kfree_skb.

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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in velocity_xmit that can
be called in hard irq and other contexts.  Packets are freed and
dropped in velocity_xmit when they are too fragmented and can
not be linearized.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c
index ad61d26a44f3..de08e86db209 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c
@@ -2565,7 +2565,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t velocity_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	/* The hardware can handle at most 7 memory segments, so merge
 	 * the skb if there are more */
 	if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags > 6 && __skb_linearize(skb)) {
-		kfree_skb(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.10.4

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