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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, lennart.schulte@nets.rwth-aachen.de,
	tj@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, henning.fehrmann@aei.mpg.de,
	carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:55:00 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100719.125500.257479409.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279561148.2553.150.camel@edumazet-laptop>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:39:08 +0200

> Do you know in what exact circumstance the bug triggers ?
> 
> It's hard to believe thousand of machines on the Internet never hit
> it :(
> 
> Maybe another problem in congestion control ?

This is something to investigate, but the conditions under which
tcp_fastretrans_alert() (the main invoker of tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue())
does it's thing are complicated enough that I'm going to add this fix
for the time being and push it out to stable too.

Thanks everyone.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-19 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-08  8:22 oops in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() w/ v2.6.32.15 Tejun Heo
2010-07-11  2:36 ` David Miller
2010-07-11 16:09 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-11 17:06   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-11 17:46     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-11 18:29       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-11 19:22         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-11 19:25           ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-11 19:44             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-15 11:58   ` Lennart Schulte
2010-07-15 12:05     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-15 12:55       ` Lennart Schulte
2010-07-16 12:02         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-16 12:25           ` Lennart Schulte
2010-07-16 13:19             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-19  8:06               ` Lennart Schulte
2010-07-19 11:16                 ` [PATCHv2] tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-19 14:09                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 17:25                     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-19 17:39                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 19:55                         ` David Miller [this message]
2010-07-20  8:33                           ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-07-19 14:57           ` oops in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() w/ v2.6.32.15 Tejun Heo
2010-07-20  8:41             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-09-08  9:32             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-09-08 10:25               ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-08 10:34                 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-09-09 10:27                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-09 10:45                     ` Ilpo Järvinen

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