Simon Roscic wrote:
> hi,
> 
> today i upgraded my kernel from 2.6.9-rc2 to 2.6.10-rc3-bk12, now i get the
> following assertion failures while using the (closed source) phion vpn
> client, the vpn client uses ethertap, there are no closed source kernel
> modules or the like:
> 
> KERNEL: assertion (!atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc)) failed at
> net/ipv4/af_inet.c (150)

netlink has messed up the send buffer accounting, when trimming a skb.

Patch below should fix this for ethertap. Could you give it a try?

-Tommy