From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: Resending: RT patches expose netdev race [was Re: [RFC] [patch 2/2] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix kernel hang and/or panic
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:49:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179362985.32247.252.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517002751.GC4325@austin.ibm.com>
> I do not know why sk_buff->head would be null, or
> would be set in a racy kind of way, or why the rt patches
> would cause this. But the evidence implicates that.
Would it be possible that a locking bug in spidernet would cause it
under some circumstances to get a stale skb pointer ?
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 0:27 Resending: RT patches expose netdev race [was Re: [RFC] [patch 2/2] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix kernel hang and/or panic Linas Vepstas
2007-05-17 0:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-17 17:38 ` Linas Vepstas
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