diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9d95a030b58a..acc78f3d668a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 8a5f9edc4dd6c1f9fb2446a36e7cd44b79412271
+refs/heads/master: bf769375c9175b29fe72b10394888e0090c6b133
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/trunk/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index 81e3c496e28e..30b9c80e2009 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -140,12 +140,12 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 			 (num_pages * sizeof(struct hv_page_buffer)) +
 			 sizeof(struct rndis_filter_packet), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!packet) {
-		/* out of memory, silently drop packet */
+		/* out of memory, drop packet */
 		netdev_err(net, "unable to allocate hv_netvsc_packet\n");
 
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 		net->stats.tx_dropped++;
-		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
 	}
 
 	packet->extension = (void *)(unsigned long)packet +
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
 		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	}
 
-	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+	return ret ? NETDEV_TX_BUSY : NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
 /*