On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 12:47 +0100, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote: > NOT FOR COMMITTING TO MAINLINE. > > With g_ether loaded the sk occasionally becomes 0xffffffff. > It happens usually after transferring few hundreds of kilobytes to few > tens of megabytes. If sk is 0xffffffff then dereferencing it causes > kernel panic. > > This is a *workaround*. I don't know enough net code to understand the core > of the problem. However, with this patch applied the problems are gone, > or at least pushed farther away.
Is it happening on SMP or UP ? Crash should happen earlier in __inet_lookup_established() -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
