From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: net-2.6.25 splat Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:39:51 -0800 Message-ID: <20071212173951.4f1eb99a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20071212162140.6b81328d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071212.162613.186792052.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:35092 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751089AbXLMBkj (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:40:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071212.162613.186792052.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:26:13 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:21:40 -0800 > > > I don't know why it was doing ipv6 things at all. > > When you bring up any interface, with explicit IPV6 > addresses or not, the IPV6 stack seeks out local routers > and whatnot using multicast and assigns the interface > a link-local IPV6 address. > > So no matter what you're doing IPV6. > > I suspect the OOPS you hit might be related to > IPSEC stack work done recently by Herbert Xu who > has been added to the CC:. > > I doubt poor Ilpo should be contacted as I doubt his > TCP work is involved :-) Here's the screen-shot (actually more like a reen-hot): http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/pc121694.jpg I'm awaiting a reoccurrence with the screen in 50-row mode.