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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.34 Crash in dmaengine_put()
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:28:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100621202854.de928e0a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilCW2iqsNaWM9NYIomy8OxGC9jG40KpLcKMYTqL@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:57:40 -0600 Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com> wrote:

> If someone sets the IFF_UP flags in the netdev structure without going
> through ifup userspace stuff, during unregister of the the netdev
> the dmaengine-put code will decrement the reference counter negative,
> and crash at BUG! in the driver/dma/dmaengine.c code.  This seems
> busted.
> 

Please send a copy of the kernel BUG trace.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-22  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-22  2:57 2.6.34 Crash in dmaengine_put() Jeffrey Merkey
2010-06-22  3:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-06-22 14:08   ` Jeffrey Merkey
2010-06-22 14:43     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-22 16:36       ` Jeffrey Merkey

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