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Commit bb6d5e76 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net/hyperv: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use



A driver start_xmit() method cannot free skb and return NETDEV_TX_BUSY,
since caller is going to reuse freed skb.

This is mostly a revert of commit bf769375 (staging: hv: fix the return
status of netvsc_start_xmit())

In fact netif_tx_stop_queue() / netif_stop_queue() is needed before
returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY or you can trigger a ksoftirqd fatal loop.

In case of memory allocation error, only safe way is to drop the packet
and return NETDEV_TX_OK

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7bdd4027
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