From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.6.10 tcp crash - net/ipv4/tcp.c:1667 & tcp.c:1655
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:52:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121217195212.GI22452@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355772853.9380.10.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:34:13AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:41 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I just hit the following crash with Fedora's 3.6.10-2.fc17 kernel. I don't
> > have time to debug this myself at the moment, but can certainly test patches
> > or provide more info as needed. I wasn't doing anything unusual at the time,
> > just reading email/web browsing. I believe the network driver in use was
> > ipheth for tethering to an iPhone 4S over USB (the other driver being used
> > intermittently on this laptop is iwlwifi). Any ideas?
>
> I see nothing really wrong on ipheth side.
>
> I would be nice to know which driver is really in use when you have a
> panic, as its probably a driver issue.
I double checked the logs, and the wifi was disabled at the time (~30
minutes beforehand), so it had to be ipheth. The warnings were the last
thing that made it to disk before the machine hung hard, so there may have
been a more serious crash after the warning that did not get logged.
One thing I have observed with tethering is that the MTU handling is munged
by the network in interesting ways. Although the device claims to be
ethernet with a 1500 byte MTU, a 'ping -s' works only up to 996 (with no
effect trying the various -M options). A number of website are broken by
this, as the network doesn't seem to send ICMP frag needed errors to my
tethered host (but I haven't traced this behaviour from both ends yet).
Things do work for 1500 byte packets to the gateway IP, but that seems
to be local to the phone.
-ben
--
"Thought is the essence of where you are now."
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2012-12-17 17:41 3.6.10 tcp crash - net/ipv4/tcp.c:1667 & tcp.c:1655 Benjamin LaHaise
2012-12-17 19:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-17 19:52 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
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