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From: Michael Leun <lkml20101129@newton.leun.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.35 -> 2.6.36 panic when vlan and promisc with tg3
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:59:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101130095944.41b5f7b6@xenia.leun.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF442FA.4070701@candelatech.com>

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:19:06 -0800
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> On 11/29/2010 11:17 AM, Michael Leun wrote:
> > UG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01cc921c
> > IP: [<c034bfce>] vlan_hwaccel_do_receive+0x59/0xd0
> > *pdpt = 0000000036a2a001 *pde = 0000000000000000
> > Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> > last sysfs
> >
> > Then machine dead.
> >
> > In 2.6.35.x this did not happen (but vlans broken - cannot see vlan
> > tags with tcpdump),
> 
> Try this patch:
> 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/176566
> 
> It looks like this hasn't made it into stable yet?

> > To reproduce:
> >
> > ip link set eth0 up
> > vconfig add eth0 2
> > ip link set eth0 promisc on

It makes it better - it does not crash anymore on this commands - but
if you add an "tcpdump -i eth0 -n" at the end it does. So,
unfortunately no real solution.

I guess, "dropping packet no one is interested in" (as noted in the
patch) does not work very well if tcpdump is actually interested?

-- 
MfG,

Michael Leun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-30  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 19:17 2.6.35 -> 2.6.36 panic when vlan and promisc with tg3 Michael Leun
2010-11-30  0:19 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-30  3:10   ` Jesse Gross
2010-11-30  3:26     ` David Miller
2010-11-30  8:59   ` Michael Leun [this message]
2010-11-30  9:20     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-30 22:27       ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-01 10:17       ` Michael Leun
2010-12-01 10:55         ` [PATCH 2.6.36] vlan: Avoid hwaccel vlan packets when vid not used Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05  2:07           ` Michael Leun
2010-12-05  8:03             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05  9:55               ` Michael Leun
     [not found]                 ` <20101205114404.7c0cddc2@xenia.leun.net>
     [not found]                   ` <AANLkTikrDTCDxsyOG4m0XcrOY=3pTRwWqnPGsio9cBFj@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-06 19:34                     ` Michael Leun
2010-12-06 20:04                       ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-06 21:27                         ` Michael Leun
2010-12-13  0:11                           ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-13 22:45                             ` Matt Carlson
2010-12-14  4:07                               ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-14 19:15                                 ` Matt Carlson
2010-12-14 21:46                                   ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-15  0:24                                   ` Michael Leun
2010-12-15  1:34                                     ` Matt Carlson
2010-12-15  7:16                                       ` Michael Leun
2010-12-19  3:38                                         ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-07  3:24                                           ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-07  4:36                                             ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-13  1:21                                               ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-13 15:06                                                 ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-13 20:50                                                   ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-13 21:58                                                     ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-14  1:15                                                       ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-14 17:49                                                         ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-14 18:38                                                           ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-19 16:15                                                             ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-01 17:03                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-02  0:27                                     ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-02 16:05                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-06 21:01                                         ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-06 23:34                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07  1:20                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07  2:29                                               ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-07  2:41                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07  2:43                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07  2:59                                                     ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-07  3:04                                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07  3:41                                                         ` Matt Carlson
2011-01-07  3:54                                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07  4:38                                                           ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-08 16:47           ` David Miller
2010-12-08 23:06             ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-12-08 23:16             ` Greg KH
2010-12-09  1:25               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-09 20:13                 ` Greg KH

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