Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Resending: RT patches expose netdev race [was Re: [RFC] [patch 2/2] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix kernel hang and/or panic | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 10:49:45 +1000 |
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> I do not know why sk_buff->head would be null, or > would be set in a racy kind of way, or why the rt patches > would cause this. But the evidence implicates that.
Would it be possible that a locking bug in spidernet would cause it under some circumstances to get a stale skb pointer ?
Ben.
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