Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: sk == 0xffffffff fix - not for commit | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Mon, 09 Dec 2013 07:31:59 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 12:47 +0100, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote: > NOT FOR COMMITTING TO MAINLINE. > > With g_ether loaded the sk occasionally becomes 0xffffffff. > It happens usually after transferring few hundreds of kilobytes to few > tens of megabytes. If sk is 0xffffffff then dereferencing it causes > kernel panic. > > This is a *workaround*. I don't know enough net code to understand the core > of the problem. However, with this patch applied the problems are gone, > or at least pushed farther away.
Is it happening on SMP or UP ?
Crash should happen earlier in __inet_lookup_established()
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