Re: [PATCH 1/15] spidernet: null out skb pointer after its been used.

2007-06-14 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:10:17PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linas Vepstas wrote: > >Avoid kernel crash in mm/slab.c due to double-free of pointer. > > > >If the ethernet interface is brought down while there is still > >RX traffic in flight, the device shutdown routine can end up > >trying to do

Re: [PATCH 1/15] spidernet: null out skb pointer after its been used.

2007-06-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linas Vepstas wrote: Avoid kernel crash in mm/slab.c due to double-free of pointer. If the ethernet interface is brought down while there is still RX traffic in flight, the device shutdown routine can end up trying to double-free an skb, leading to a crash in mm/slab.c Avoid the double-free by n

[PATCH 1/15] spidernet: null out skb pointer after its been used.

2007-06-11 Thread Linas Vepstas
Avoid kernel crash in mm/slab.c due to double-free of pointer. If the ethernet interface is brought down while there is still RX traffic in flight, the device shutdown routine can end up trying to double-free an skb, leading to a crash in mm/slab.c Avoid the double-free by nulling out the skb poi