By inspection, the clip idle timer code is racy on SMP. Here is a safe version of timer management. Untested, I don't have ATM hardware.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clip.orig/net/atm/clip.c 2006-04-12 14:24:10.000000000 -0700 +++ clip/net/atm/clip.c 2006-04-12 14:40:01.000000000 -0700 @@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ static struct atm_vcc *atmarpd; static struct neigh_table clip_tbl; static struct timer_list idle_timer; -static int start_timer = 1; - static int to_atmarpd(enum atmarp_ctrl_type type,int itf,unsigned long ip) { @@ -725,13 +723,8 @@ return -EADDRINUSE; } - if (start_timer) { - start_timer = 0; - init_timer(&idle_timer); - idle_timer.expires = jiffies+CLIP_CHECK_INTERVAL*HZ; - idle_timer.function = idle_timer_check; - add_timer(&idle_timer); - } + mod_timer(&idle_timer, jiffies+CLIP_CHECK_INTERVAL*HZ); + atmarpd = vcc; set_bit(ATM_VF_META,&vcc->flags); set_bit(ATM_VF_READY,&vcc->flags); @@ -1002,6 +995,8 @@ register_netdevice_notifier(&clip_dev_notifier); register_inetaddr_notifier(&clip_inet_notifier); + setup_timer(&idle_timer, idle_timer_check, 0); + #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS { struct proc_dir_entry *p; @@ -1029,8 +1024,7 @@ /* First, stop the idle timer, so it stops banging * on the table. */ - if (start_timer == 0) - del_timer(&idle_timer); + del_timer_sync(&idle_timer); /* Next, purge the table, so that the device * unregister loop below does not hang due to - 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