Re: [crash] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:1328!

David Miller
2008-07-21T20:20:29Z

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:44:14 +0200

>
> * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > > Maybe the network drivers are few enough that it will get fixed, or
> > > maybe the WARN_ON_ONCE() will just be removed and the rule not
> > > reinforced.
> > >
> > > I personally suspect the latter, since it seems to happen with just
> > > about _any_ random network driver, including the common and
> > > well-maintained ones (ie the Gods only help us for the truly
> > > odd/random cases)
> >
> > Yes, we'll see how this plays out.
> >
> > Ian Schram just posted a patch for the NULL pointer derfer in wireless
> > Ingo reported, so we'll see if that bug will be fixed now as well.
>
> Yes, the fix from Ian below solved the CONFIG_MAC80211_HWSIM=y crash i
> was getting. I have no other pending issues other than a few low-prio
> ne2000 build failures.
>
> Thanks guys,

Thanks everyone, applied.