From 572a9d7b6fc7f20f573664063324c086be310c42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick McHardy Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:14:14 +0000 Subject: net: allow to propagate errors through ->ndo_hard_start_xmit() Currently the ->ndo_hard_start_xmit() callbacks are only permitted to return one of the NETDEV_TX codes. This prevents any kind of error propagation for virtual devices, like queue congestion of the underlying device in case of layered devices, or unreachability in case of tunnels. This patches changes the NET_XMIT codes to avoid clashes with the NETDEV_TX codes and changes the two callers of dev_hard_start_xmit() to expect either errno codes, NET_XMIT codes or NETDEV_TX codes as return value. In case of qdisc_restart(), all non NETDEV_TX codes are mapped to NETDEV_TX_OK since no error propagation is possible when using qdiscs. In case of dev_queue_xmit(), the error is propagated upwards. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sched/sch_generic.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/sched') diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c index 4ae6aa562f2b..b13821ad2fb6 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c @@ -120,8 +120,15 @@ int sch_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q, HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, smp_processor_id()); if (!netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) && - !netif_tx_queue_frozen(txq)) + !netif_tx_queue_frozen(txq)) { ret = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq); + + /* an error implies that the skb was consumed */ + if (ret < 0) + ret = NETDEV_TX_OK; + /* all NET_XMIT codes map to NETDEV_TX_OK */ + ret &= ~NET_XMIT_MASK; + } HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq); spin_lock(root_lock); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b