On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:01:46 -0400 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:36:24 -0400 > > Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There's a strange sky2 bug on the Gentoo bugzilla: > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136508 > >> > >> sky2 seems to work OK, but breaks as soon as the iptables ruleset is > >> loaded. Nothing can be pinged, etc. > >> > >> Can someone try and reproduce this? The iptables rule script has been > >> uploaded here: > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=95694&action=view > >> > >> The very last command in that file is the one which produces an error > >> and stops everything working: > >> > >> iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 > >> > >> Apparently a sky2 null deref has also been seen at this point, although > >> I don't have further details on that. > > > > It might be an artifact of the way sky2 was allocating receive buffers. > > Bridge-netfilter was assuming header space in the buffer, and would corrupt > > other memory, maybe iptables is assuming as well. This makes sky2 > > use dev_alloc_skb that reserves space. > > ----------------------- > > Subject: sky2: use dev_alloc_skb for receive buffers > > Unfortunately the problem still exists with this patch. Any other ideas? > > Daniel I tried the script with 2.6.18 and saw no problem. Of course, my configuration was probably different and I wasn't running Gentoo. Eth0 was a sky2 device, and eth1 was a skge. - 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
