From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Hazelton Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Lock transmit queue while disabling device Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:15:33 -0500 Message-ID: <200912311115.33456.dhazelton@enter.net> References: <4B3C8323.1080301@ring3k.org> <4B3CCA17.5020707@majjas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mike McCormack , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, flyboy@gmail.com To: Michael Breuer Return-path: Received: from keil-draco.com ([216.193.185.50]:53642 "EHLO mail.keil-draco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752486AbZLaQPj (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:15:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B3CCA17.5020707@majjas.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 31 December 2009 10:58:15 am Michael Breuer wrote: > This doesn't solve the issue on my system. Just ran a test - same > errors. I don't think that the under-load errors I'm seeing involve > sky2_detatch. I'm thinking it's related to the dhcp AF_INTERNET fix that > solved the lockup under load - that something outside of sky2 is > corrupting an skb. and I am unable to try because I have never had the time - or the free machine - to narrow down what, exactly is causing a similar crash here. It appears, however, to be caused by some a**hole out there deciding to point a botnet at that server... (at least... that's what has been going on each time the machine has gone down...) DRH