Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

Richard Fuchs
2005-03-06T18:40:27Z

Scott Feldman wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Richard Fuchs wrote:

>> looks like you are right, enabling NAPI in 2.6.7 does trigger this.
>>
>> what exactly is this?

> A bug in the driver. I have a hunch: please try this patch with 2.6.9
> or higher:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=110726809431611&w=2

bingo, that fixes it. too bad neither this patch nor the removal of the
NAPI config option made it into 2.6.11...

>> also, does this affect the e1000 driver in any way?

> No. e1000 is a totally different driver/device with very similar name.

too bad, i was hoping for an explanation for some unexplainable crashes
i've been experiencing... ;)

cheers
richard