diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index dc725591d7b1..9d95a030b58a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7db1d946c4db748b631fe4885110349cc259987f
+refs/heads/master: 8a5f9edc4dd6c1f9fb2446a36e7cd44b79412271
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/trunk/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index b49a08f4ed5a..81e3c496e28e 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/trunk/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;