From: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>
To: Berck Nash <flyboy@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: sky2 panic in 2.6.32.1 under load
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:28:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912241128.57599.dhazelton@enter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3390EC.5060408@gmail.com>
On Thursday 24 December 2009 11:03:56 am Berck Nash wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:52:10 -0700 "Berck E. Nash" <flyboy@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> Since 2.6.32, I've been getting kernel panics under heavy network load
> >> (bittorrent usage).
> >
> > Let's cc the right list and developer.
> >
> > This is a 2.6.31->2.6.32 regression?
>
> I believe so. Since it's intermittent and difficult to reproduce, it's
> possible (but unlikely) that I simply never triggered it under 2.6.31.
This is far from new. I have seen this under 2.6.27 when at least one botnet
has been pointed at a server of mine and told to gain access. It has happened
four times in the last six to eight months - and I have no easy way to capture
the logs. But the oops that was posted looks very, very similar to what I've
seen.
It's always an allocation error in the transmit path that leads to the panic.
Because this is a production machine that I do not have a way to take down and
do testing with I've not reported the problem before.
DRH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-24 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 145+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 23:52 sky2 panic in 2.6.32.1 under load Berck E. Nash
2009-12-22 0:09 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-22 18:50 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-23 22:54 ` sky2 panic in 2.6.32.1 under load (new oops) Michael Breuer
2009-12-24 7:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-24 19:18 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-24 22:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-25 16:28 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-25 23:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-26 3:23 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-26 17:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-26 20:37 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-26 22:05 ` [PATCH] sky2: make sure ethernet header is in transmit skb Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-27 3:44 ` David Miller
2009-12-27 4:11 ` David Miller
2010-01-04 5:32 ` David Miller
2010-01-04 16:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-04 17:02 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-05 23:07 ` [PATCH] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue_xmit() Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-05 23:16 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-05 23:29 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-06 2:36 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-06 7:22 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-06 9:15 ` [PATCH alt.2] " Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-06 14:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-06 19:40 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-06 19:49 ` [PATCH] " Michael Breuer
2010-01-06 20:22 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-06 20:33 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-06 21:09 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-06 21:32 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-06 21:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-06 21:20 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-06 23:26 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 2:42 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 4:00 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 4:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-07 5:10 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 5:32 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 5:54 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 7:20 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 7:47 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 7:55 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 8:21 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 15:03 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 17:56 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 18:17 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 15:05 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 18:01 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 18:19 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 18:35 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 18:40 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 18:43 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 18:50 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 19:36 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 19:55 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-07 20:22 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07 23:11 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-08 7:45 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-08 16:40 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-08 21:29 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-08 21:48 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-08 22:02 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-09 4:45 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-09 5:44 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-09 12:28 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-09 18:34 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13 20:39 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13 21:09 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-13 21:16 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13 21:34 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-17 16:26 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-17 22:17 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-17 22:34 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-17 23:05 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-17 23:15 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-18 7:30 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-18 16:29 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-18 20:46 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-18 20:56 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-18 21:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-18 21:06 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-18 21:24 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-18 21:50 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-18 21:25 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-18 21:39 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-18 22:08 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-18 22:17 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-18 22:47 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-19 5:46 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-19 8:41 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-19 15:28 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-21 19:48 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-19 10:47 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-19 15:47 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-19 19:59 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-19 20:06 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-19 20:29 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-19 22:45 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-20 1:01 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-20 1:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-21 16:14 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-21 16:50 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-18 22:25 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-18 22:40 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-27 17:03 ` sky2 panic in 2.6.32.1 under load (new oops) Michael Breuer
2009-12-27 18:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-27 19:39 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-29 17:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-29 17:39 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-29 18:38 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-29 18:54 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-29 19:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-29 20:41 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 7:23 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 7:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-30 17:49 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 19:15 ` audit.c skb - tty race condition - was " Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 20:44 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 21:15 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 21:21 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 7:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-30 15:40 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 18:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-30 18:37 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-31 18:09 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-31 18:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-01 17:42 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-01 19:26 ` sky2 panic in 2.6.32.1 under load (tty NULL write) Michael Breuer
2010-01-01 20:34 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-02 21:42 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-29 19:15 ` sky2 panic in 2.6.32.1 under load (new oops) Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-29 19:20 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-30 8:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-30 15:36 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-22 0:52 ` sky2 panic in 2.6.32.1 under load Daniel Hazelton
2009-12-24 6:58 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-24 16:03 ` Berck Nash
2009-12-24 16:28 ` Daniel Hazelton [this message]
2009-12-24 22:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-24 22:42 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-25 0:06 ` Daniel Hazelton
2009-12-24 16:10 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-24 16:16 ` Berck Nash
2009-12-24 16:26 ` Michael Breuer
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