From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: oops in ip_rcv Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:09:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20050505150943.566280f0.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20050505101542.GB7916@krispykreme> <20050505130904.GA16593@krispykreme> <20050505112624.3ffd7f3d.davem@davemloft.net> <20050505213740.GB29526@gondor.apana.org.au> <20050505214453.GA29853@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: anton@samba.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <20050505214453.GA29853@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 May 2005 07:44:53 +1000 Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:37:40AM +1000, herbert wrote: > > > > Could we delay the call of dev_add_pack(&ip_packet_type) until > > the very end of inet_init? That way we're guaranteed to not > > receive anything until it's ready. > > This patch should do the trick. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Of course... But I don't want to apply this until Anton tells us how in the world he is receiving packets so early in the boot. If I put this patch in now, he may get lazy just like me and never try and figure out where they are coming from :)