From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:52:45 +1100
> Well I started from the beginning again, and found this. This may be > the smoking gun that we're after :) > > The xmit routine is lockless but checks last_tx_tso outside the locked > section. So if a TSO packet wins a race against a non-TSO packet with > last_tx_tso == 0 then we'll have memory corruption. Regardless of whether this fixes the bug being discussed, this fix should go into the e1000 driver ASAP. Good spotting Herbert. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
