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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: panics in tcp_ack
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:58:17 -0700
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On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 10:51 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:

> Any ideas on what could cause that? Anything the driver could be doing
> or not doing to cause it? Perhaps some memory ordering or visibility issue.
> 

Yes, maybe, but I have no idea.

> > Your best bet would be to perform a (reverse) bisection if you know
> > recent kernels are OK.
> 
> I did that once looking at 3.6 and 3.7 stable kernels, but they did not
> have fixes like "tcp: fix skb_availroom()" and so I just hit other
> failures. I'll do it again with more fixes applied.

Yes, you'll have to apply a number of known fixes at every step of the
bisection, sorry !