virtio-net: correct error handling of virtqueue_kick()

[~andy/linux] / drivers / net / virtio_net.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 5632a99cbbd24fdd059c182e5b28d1d19b3ea4e9..841b60831df1b2e83c12f55ee5e8fc90874b9475 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -671,8 +671,7 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct receive_queue *rq, gfp_t gfp)
                if (err)
                        break;
        } while (rq->vq->num_free);
-       if (unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(rq->vq)))
-               return false;
+       virtqueue_kick(rq->vq);
        return !oom;
 }
 
@@ -877,7 +876,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
        err = xmit_skb(sq, skb);
 
        /* This should not happen! */
-       if (unlikely(err) || unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(sq->vq))) {
+       if (unlikely(err)) {
                dev->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
                if (net_ratelimit())
                        dev_warn(&dev->dev,
@@ -886,6 +885,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                kfree_skb(skb);
                return NETDEV_TX_OK;
        }
+       virtqueue_kick(sq->vq);
 
        /* Don't wait up for transmitted skbs to be freed. */
        skb_orphan(skb);