On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Erik C.J. Laan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed Sarge/testing on my Mac Quadra 650 succesfully with
> Debian Installer RC1. Now I want to start using it to test (mac-fdisk
> amongst others), but it crashes sometimes. These crashes seem to only
> happen when I SSH into the machine. It does not matter whether I SSH
> into it with PuTTY (0.52 and 0.55) or the Woody SSH client (with
> security updates). First with the 2.2.25-mac kernel installed by D-I
> only the network-connection was dropped, with no messages printed
> anywere (console or serial debug output). With the 2.2.25 kernel from
> the 2.2.25-2 deb it really crashes, but a message is printed:
>
> Warning: kfree-skb passed an skb still on a list (from xxxxx)
>
> This happen 2 times, the first time xxxxx was 000e4416, the second time
> it was 000d3136.
I gather you are using the Q650 onboard ethernet? I've been digging in
the sonic code in the various repositories lately, and I ran accross this
change. It could be relevant, I don't know.
--- linux/drivers/net/sonic.c 2003/06/08 08:08:49 1.1.1.1.2.2
+++ linux/drivers/net/sonic.c 2003/07/21 21:11:35 1.1.1.1.2.3
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static void sonic_interrupt(int irq, voi
/* We must free the original skb */
if (lp->tx_skb[entry]) {
- dev_kfree_skb(lp->tx_skb[entry]);
+ dev_kfree_skb_irq(lp->tx_skb[entry]);
lp->tx_skb[entry] = 0;
}
/* and the VDMA address */
This change was committed to the m68k-2_4 branch. It doesn't appear in any
other m68k nor mac68k branches, nor debian 2.2.25 code. Perhaps it should?
Can anyone comment on whether this patch is more widely useful?
-F
