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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jnelson@jamponi.net, jarkao2@o2.pl, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jnelson-kernel-bugzilla@jamponi.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-velocity: don't oops on MTU change.
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:25:16 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071116.162516.45974449.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071116084706.467aa834@freepuppy.rosehill>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:47:06 -0800

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:21:25 -0600
> "Jon Nelson" <jnelson@jamponi.net> wrote:
> 
> > I get a segmentation fault.
> > 
> > Should this patch be in addition to the one from bug 9382?
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13555&action=view
> > 
> Yes. The new patch adds just recomputes the rx buf size in
> one place, so it can be set when device is down.
> Also, the computation will always yield same result now, the old
> code computed different values depending on whether it was initial
> or changed MTU.

But with your patch he is getting an OOPS (he described it as
a 'segmentation fault' which is why you perhaps missed it)
so you should try to figure out why so we can fix this bug.

:-)

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-17  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-9382-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2007-11-15  3:23 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 9382] New: etting MTU > 1500 on card "cold" sigsegs the "ip" program and produces an OOPS Andrew Morton
2007-11-15  3:38   ` [PATCH] via-velocity: don't oops on MTU change Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-15  3:48     ` David Miller
2007-11-15  8:26     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-11-15 18:20       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-15 23:10         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-11-16  2:42           ` Jon Nelson
2007-11-16  4:05             ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-16  4:35             ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-16 16:21               ` Jon Nelson
2007-11-16 16:47                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-17  0:25                   ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-17  0:59                   ` Jon Nelson
2007-11-17 15:04                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-11-28 22:02               ` Jon Nelson
2007-11-28 22:20                 ` [PATCH] via-velocity: don't oops on MTU change (resend) Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-01 21:36                   ` Jeff Garzik

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