Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261462AbVCFSk1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:40:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261465AbVCFSk0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:40:26 -0500 Received: from smartmx-01.inode.at ([213.229.60.33]:23742 "EHLO smartmx-01.inode.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261462AbVCFSkV (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:40:21 -0500 Message-ID: <422B4E97.4090303@inode.info> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:40:23 +0100 From: Richard Fuchs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Feldman CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: slab corruption in skb allocs References: <42283093.7040405@inode.info> <20050304035309.1da7774e.akpm@osdl.org> <42285354.5090900@inode.info> <93832c6db45c33f7b2f195aae0d469dc@pobox.com> <422A041E.40105@inode.info> <0a8f9833de8ba3f767f3b3211bbb693a@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <0a8f9833de8ba3f767f3b3211bbb693a@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 29 Scott Feldman wrote: > On Mar 5, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Richard Fuchs wrote: >> looks like you are right, enabling NAPI in 2.6.7 does trigger this. >> >> what exactly is this? > A bug in the driver. I have a hunch: please try this patch with 2.6.9 > or higher: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=110726809431611&w=2 bingo, that fixes it. too bad neither this patch nor the removal of the NAPI config option made it into 2.6.11... >> also, does this affect the e1000 driver in any way? > No. e1000 is a totally different driver/device with very similar name. too bad, i was hoping for an explanation for some unexplainable crashes i've been experiencing... ;) cheers richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/