On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 04:15:01 +0530 (IST) Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > Try this from net-2.6 tree: > > > > --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c > > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c > > @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static u32 tcp_rto_min(struct sock *sk) > > struct dst_entry *dst = __sk_dst_get(sk); > > u32 rto_min = TCP_RTO_MIN; > > > > - if (dst_metric_locked(dst, RTAX_RTO_MIN)) > > + if (dst && dst_metric_locked(dst, RTAX_RTO_MIN)) > > rto_min = dst->metrics[RTAX_RTO_MIN-1]; > > return rto_min; > > } > > That's my impression as well. That's way too core/busy a codepath to > have a bug in. As I said earlier, almost anybody testing -rc5 is sure > to hit this within a few hours (probably less) -- sad, it greatly > erodes from the usefulness of -rc5 as a release candidate. For the record, I haven't been able to reproduce the lockup with this patch. Cheers François - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
