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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, o.cornu@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4381] New: When i try to start a pppoe conn., crash at net/core/skbuff.c:91
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:55:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4240DA8D.1050906@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DDvvZ-000350-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> 
>>===== drivers/net/ppp_async.c 1.26 vs edited =====
>>--- 1.26/drivers/net/ppp_async.c        2005-01-21 06:02:12 +01:00
>>+++ edited/drivers/net/ppp_async.c      2005-03-23 03:15:31 +01:00
>>@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
>>       ap->chan.private = ap;
>>       ap->chan.ops = &async_ops;
>>       ap->chan.mtu = PPP_MRU;
>>+       ap->chan.hdrlen = 2;
>>       err = ppp_register_channel(&ap->chan);
> 
> 
> I'm not sure whether this could cause the original crash that we saw.
> If ap->chan.hdrlen is not set then it should be zero.  It being zero
> should not cause skb_over_panic to trigger in ppp_write, should it?

You're right, I missed the memset().

Regards
Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-23  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-22  4:11 Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4381] New: When i try to start a pppoe conn., crash at net/core/skbuff.c:91 Andrew Morton
2005-03-23  2:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-23  2:49   ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-23  2:55     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-03-23  3:06   ` Paul Mackerras

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