Re: IPF Montvale machine panic when running a network-relevent

["Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 20:37 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:27:43 +0800
> 
> > This issue is caused by tcp defer accept. Mostly, process context calls lock_sock
> > to apply a sleeping lock. BH (SoftIRQ) context calls bh_lock_sock(_nested) to just apply
> > for the sk->sk_lock.slock without sleeping, then do appropriate processing based on
> > if sk->sk_lock.owned=0. That works well if both process context and BH context operate
> > the same sk at the same time. But with tcp defer accept, it doesn't, because
> > process context(for example, in inet_csk_accept) locks the listen sk, while BH
> > context (in tcp_v4_rcv, for example) locks the child sk and calls
> > tcp_defer_accept_check => inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add => reqsk_queue_add, so there is a race
> > to access the listen sock.
> > 
> > Below patch against 2.6.26-rc6 fixes the issue.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
> 
> We reverted the guilty defer accept changes, please test Linus's
> current tree.
I happened to download git tree on June 16th, which includes the reverting patch.

I confirm it fixes the hang issue.

-yanmin