The attached script leads to a crash when you run it for 2-3 times on 2.6.29.1. The server still remains reachable, but starts misbehaving.

With 2.6.23.1, so far I didn't get any crashes.

May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f8bbc008
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: IP: [<f863ab01>] pktgen_remove_device+0x88/0xdc [pktgen]
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: *pde = 31030067 *pte = 00000000 
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/i5k_amb.0/name
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: Modules linked in: pktgen act_police cls_u32 sch_ingress autofs4 ip_vs rfcomm l2cap bluetooth bonding nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp ip6t_ipv6header ip6t_REJECT ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 dm_multipath joydev i5k_amb hwmon bnx2 sg e1000e ipmi_si i5000_edac edac_core sr_mod ehci_hcd ipmi_msghandler pcspkr serio_raw uhci_hcd iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support cdrom hpwdt dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod ext3 mbcache jbd ata_piix libata cciss sd_mod scsi_mod [last unloaded: microcode]
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: 
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: Pid: 495, comm: kpktgend_0 Not tainted (2.6.29.1-1hzd.fc8 #1) ProLiant DL360 G5
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<f863ab01>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: EIP is at pktgen_remove_device+0x88/0xdc [pktgen]
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: EAX: f8bbc000 EBX: f4e85000 ECX: f4121500 EDX: 00000000
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: ESI: 00100000 EDI: 00010000 EBP: f3011f10 ESP: f3011f04
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: Process kpktgend_0 (pid: 495, ti=f3011000 task=f570e200 task.ti=f3011000)
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: Stack:
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  ef9c9000 f4e85000 ef9c9004 f3011f24 f863ab8e ef9c9000 ef9c9000 ef9c9000
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  f3011fd0 f863cba3 ef9c9000 e36f8a15 00046a5b f7eaa74a f41cad80 c065a4f6
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  f3011f60 c065b365 00000286 c040272a 00000000 f416ef40 f4146e40 f3011f78
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: Call Trace:
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<f863ab8e>] ? pktgen_rem_all_ifs+0x39/0x51 [pktgen]
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<f863cba3>] ? pktgen_thread_worker+0x111e/0x1266 [pktgen]
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<f7eaa74a>] ? bnx2_start_xmit+0x0/0x3c5 [bnx2]
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c065a4f6>] ? kretprobe_table_unlock+0x12/0x14
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c065b365>] ? kprobe_flush_task+0x58/0x5f
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c040272a>] ? __switch_to+0xde/0x168
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c0426c0f>] ? finish_task_switch+0x93/0xab
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c043d205>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<f863ba85>] ? pktgen_thread_worker+0x0/0x1266 [pktgen]
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c043d131>] ? kthread+0x3b/0x62
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c043d0f6>] ? kthread+0x0/0x62
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel:  [<c0404193>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: Code: 8b 03 85 c0 74 0e 8b 40 08 8b 15 7c 1a 64 f8 e8 fb f3 e8 c7 31 ff 31 f6 83 bb 44 02 00 00 00 75 36 eb 3c 8b 83 40 02 00 00 01 f0 <8b> 50 08 85 d2 74 21 f0 ff 4a 18 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 07 89 d0 e8 
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: EIP: [<f863ab01>] pktgen_remove_device+0x88/0xdc [pktgen] SS:ESP 0068:f3011f04
May 20 21:09:03 tshape-phome2 kernel: ---[ end trace 2ad593a542263595 ]---

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