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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 38102] New: BUG kmalloc-2048: Poison
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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:52:11 +0200
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Le jeudi 07 juillet 2011 =C3=A0 13:43 +0400, Alexey Zaytsev a =C3=A9cri=
t :

> Ok, I've wrongly fixed this part in the clean b44.c, and got stalls.
> Then fixed the patched one after applying the stash, and still got th=
e
> stalls.

So, filling NULL to 'should not be used slots' definitely removes the
memory corruption, but also stalls the NIC.

Driver model is completely wrong. Without full hardware specs, this wil=
l
be hard to guess appropriate fixes.