From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: net-next: 2.6.34-rc1 regression: panic when running diagnostic on interface with IPv6 Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100405.161221.159637463.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100323.233323.93371615.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: emil.s.tantilov@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51451 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756757Ab0DEXMT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:12:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Tantilov, Emil S" Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:03:56 -0600 > David Miller wrote: >> From: "Tantilov, Emil S" >> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:28:08 -0600 >> >>> Bisecting points to this patch: >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=84e8b803f1e16f3a2b8b80f80a63fa2f2f8a9be6 >>> >>> And I confirmed that the issue goes away after reverting it. >>> >>> Steps to reproduce: >>> 1. Load the driver and configure IPv6 address. >>> 2. Run ethtool diag: >>> ethtool -t eth0 >>> >>> 3. If this doesn't brake it try again, or just do ifdown/up. Other >>> operations on the interface will eventually panic the system: >> >> Stephen please fix this, thanks. > > Just FYI - I still see this issue with latest pull from net-2.6. It's net-next-2.6 that introduced the problem and has the follow-on fixes, not net-2.6