Re: [bug] stuck localhost TCP connections, v2.6.26-rc3+

Ingo Molnar
2008-05-26T20:42:19Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > It's well possible that e.g., net namespaces have some bug in
> > handling of orphaned tcp.
>
> yes, that would match the symptoms i think. I half-assumed that it's a
> state machine problem so i didnt even check what the reader does - and
> in this case it appears to not exist at all anymore ;-)

after ~7 hours of uptime the networking code produced this assertion:

[25441.140000] KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_ack_backlog) failed at
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c (642)

no further information in the logs. I kept the failing system booted up
for 8 hours and will reboot it now.

Ingo