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From: Richard Fuchs <richard.fuchs@inode.info>
To: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slab corruption in skb allocs
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:40:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422B4E97.4090303@inode.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a8f9833de8ba3f767f3b3211bbb693a@pobox.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-06 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-04  9:55 slab corruption in skb allocs Richard Fuchs
2005-03-04 11:53 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 12:23   ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-04 20:11     ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-04 21:19       ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-04 21:27         ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-04 21:52           ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-04 22:05             ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-04 22:51               ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-05 18:25     ` Scott Feldman
2005-03-05 19:10       ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-06 17:44         ` Scott Feldman
2005-03-06 18:40           ` Richard Fuchs [this message]
2005-03-07  5:07             ` Scott Feldman
2005-03-07  8:30               ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-04 18:10 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-04 18:32   ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-04 19:29     ` Richard Fuchs
2005-03-21 22:36 ` Andrew Morton

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